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...
Orion’s EFT-1: 1 year later
Orion’s first flight one year ago was an extremely important milestone in the development of the vehicle. Orion performed admirably in the face of some of the most hazardous reentry conditions experienced by a spacecraft, and proved the technology that will one...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, December 7, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The space community marked the first anniversary of the NASA/Lockheed Martin Exploration Flight Test-1, an unpiloted two orbit test flight of...
Gemini VII launched 50 years ago today
On this day in 1965, Gemini VII was launched from Cape Canaveral to become the 12th manned American spaceflight. Gemini VII, crewed by Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, set a record for the longest manned spaceflight at nearly 14 days, which was later broken by astronauts...Space Talk
@SpaceArchivist_ Yes, the LVSA might be a slight issue, so try it whichever way works best for you!
as for KSP, I appreciate the offer, but i love to show off my own KSP stock stuff so ill probably do that myself, but i do thank you for the offer!
@SpaceArchivist_ could you replace the ICPS with centaur V?
I'm working on a video about SLS centaur V, and one of the points im going to discuss is how massively overkill current SLS is for CV, and that this, much smaller SLS could also do such a thing, and would like to give the audience a
@SpaceArchivist_ and of course, Ill credit you in video!
What a strange configuration
Hey as a completely unrelated fun fact did y'all know that Orion can only be integrated vertically?
We're not rebuilding the same pad for New Glenn. We're moving to a horizontal/vertical hybrid configuration to get us flying again this year at 36A. We were already working on something similar for 9x4 at 36B. Let me explain what that means. We mate the stages horizontally in
@ThePrimalDino @Tygget getting Orion to LLO with CV would definitely require a refill in LEO, and at that point it would make more sense to just use a beefier cislunar transporter
@serendistant @Tygget yup. especially given how tall that rocket would be. it would be very unwieldy
We’re at the Great American State Fair in DC, where we’ve got live feed of NASA astronauts @Astro_Jessica and @Astro_ChrisW replacing a wrist joint on the @Space_Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm during their spacewalk! Tune in here: http://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/us-spacewalk-95/
