Project HARP: The Space Gun
Remember Project HARP? This was an experiment began in the 1960s to launch a small satellite from an artillery piece, with the ultimate goal of bringing down launch costs. While the project eventually shut down due to funding concerns, it was successful in launching...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The FAA’s George Nield offers some reasons to embrace Moon Village, a proposed far side moon settlement. Multi-national studies examine...
Orion, SLS Hardware on the Move
November is shaping up to be a busy month for Orion and Space Launch System hardware. For the first time since the space shuttle program, a human-rated flight engine was lifted into a test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. And in Turin, Italy,...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA seeks new astronaut applicants for the first time in four years. Europe has shipped its first contribution to the NASA/Lockheed Martin...
Mars and its missing atmosphere
Last week, NASA released findings of a six month-long study to determine the composition and history of Mars’ atmosphere. Scientists working on the project posit that the solar wind has gradually stripped Mars of most of its atmosphere, leaving it with a...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, November 9, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA features photos of a space suit prototype for future planetary explorers. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completes the last of four...
Space Launch System’s structural test panels complete
Teams at AMRO Fabricating Corp. in South El Monte, California, show completed flight and structural test article hardware panels, arranged in order, for each section of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, November 6, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s Space Launch System exploration rocket and Orion crew exploration capsule programs have assumed budget increases not yet approved,...
STS-73 landed 20 years ago today
On this day in 1995, STS-73 on the Space Shuttle Columbia returned to Earth after an extremely successful 15-day mission in orbit. STS-73 carried the second United States Microgravity Laboratory (USML-2) Spacelab mission. Experiments conducted in-flight included...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
