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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, November 5, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA will seek new recruits for its astronaut corps, men and women that could train for future deep space exploration as well as service aboard...
NASA Studies New Upper Stage For Second SLS Mission
Frank Morring, Jr. NASA human-spaceflight managers are evaluating whether it will be possible to switch to a more capable upper stage for the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) in time for its first flight with a crew. The U.S. space agency has scheduled that flight...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Two space veterans make the case for the moon as a destination on the way to Mars with humans. As NASA starts a human Mars landing site...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/
