Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA contracts with Aerojet Rocketdyne to manufacture the rocket engines for the first stage of the Space Launch System exploration rocket. Planners...
Check out Orion’s shiny new coating
NASA recently released new images of the Orion capsule with a new paint job–a chrome layer that will help with thermal insulation for the spacecraft. The chrome layer, being highly reflective, will help maintain Orion’s temperature during its missions....
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 23, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin crusades for Mars. NASA prepares the James Webb Space Telescope’s big mirror for assembly ahead of late...
Happy Birthday, ISS
17 years ago today, the Zarya module of the International Space Station launched into orbit, making the ISS 17 years old! Zarya, meaning “sunrise” in Russian, provided electrical power and storage while the station was being assembled, and also served as...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, November 20, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA introduces a silvery addition to the Orion crew exploration capsule. Space Florida works to make space exploration an issue in the 2016...
46 years ago today, Apollo 12 landed on the moon
On this day in 1969, Apollo 12 landed on the moon. The second mission to reach our satellite, Apollo 12 was crewed by astronauts Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean. Apollo 12 completed a number of firsts, including the first visit of a manned spaceflight to a...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, November 19, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Emerging telepresence and virtual reality technologies could help U.S. astronauts explore the Martian surface from orbit around the red planet....
Don’t miss tomorrow’s panel on Orion and SLS at #SpaceCom
Thursday, 11/19 at 12:30 p.m. Central, Orbital ATK vice president and former space shuttle commander Brian Duffy will moderate a discussion on NASA’s next generation space exploration missions. Lockheed Martin Orion Program Engineer Lora Lechago and Boeing Space...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA is uniting scientists and engineers to select the best human landing site on Mars. Robots built and programmed for space may accompany...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/
