Deep Space Extra for Monday, December 14, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The U.S. House joined the Senate on Friday in an agreement to extend a budget Continuing Resolution through Wednesday, avoiding a government...
Orion is Marching. Down. The field.
NASA’s Orion Program continues to mark progress at facilities around the country toward the next flight of the spacecraft. Engineers at NASA Glenn Research Center’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, are preparing a structural representation of the ESA (European...
Deep Space Extra for Friday, December 11, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Agreement on a year-long U.S. omnibus spending bill appears in the works. The film drama The Martian receives multiple Golden Globe nominations. New...
STS-116 launched 9 years ago today
On this day in 2006, STS-116 launched from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station. STS-116 aboard the space shuttle Discovery brought numerous structural enhancements to the station, including the P5 truss segment, a SPACEHAB module and components for a...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, December 10, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. U.S. lawmakers again face a 2016 budget impasse and possible shutdown. Life on Mars: the pluses and minuses. A European/Russian Mars lander...
Next Giant Leap, No Small Steps
Our focus today at the Space Launch System (SLS) program is on building a new rocket – the most powerful in the world. On its first test flight, Exploration Mission-1, SLS will carry atop it an uncrewed Orion spacecraft, which will someday carry astronauts on a...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Canada’s Devon Island has long been among the closest analogs to Mars on Earth. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spots an Apollo...
A drill to tunnel miles below the surface of Mars
It’s noon in Ocotillo Wells, California. A vast and empty patch of desert between San Diego and the Salton Sea, this part of California might as well be Mars. After just a few minutes, everything is covered with a fine white dust, soft to the touch, like powdered...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Top NASA spaceflight officials outline a direction for human exploration into the 2030s, with a new feature: a yearlong stay in lunar orbit by...Space Talk
@mars_stu @NASAJPL @NASAMars They'll be downlinked when the spacecraft is able to re-point to Earth following its science observations. Will begin likely NET later this evening US time, and take place over a few days.
What's it like to fly NASA's experimental, quiet supersonic aircraft?
We're hosting a @Reddit AMA with our X-59 test pilots on Monday, May 18. Stop by and share your questions! https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/
What's it like to fly NASA's experimental, quiet supersonic aircraft?
We're hosting a @Reddit AMA with our X-59 test pilots on Monday, May 18. Stop by and share your questions! https://www.reddit.com/r/nasa/
How do planets form? Tiny grains of dust orbiting a newborn star collide, grow, and eventually build entire worlds. ✨🪐
A NASA scientist explains how planets like Earth came to be: https://youtu.be/1A_73j71WkE?si=ipv2g9uW0__rT5nV
