Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Congressional leaders and the White House may have budget and debt limit deals. NASA Critical Design Review clears Orion capsule for production...
The next Mars rover and the quest for breathable air
How soon can we have humans on Mars? Sooner than you might think–the first experiment designed to produce breathable air on the Martian surface is launching in 2020. The rover will carry the Mars Oxygen ISRU experiment “MOXIE,” which will take carbon...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, October 26, 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 critical design review draws to a close with a decision to proceed with production of the Block 1 version of...
NASA Completes Critical Design Review for Space Launch System
For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) is the first vehicle designed to meet the challenges of the journey to Mars and the first...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, October 23, 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 has completed the Critical Design Review phase, a major milestone in its assigned mission...Apollo 7 splashed down 47 years ago today
On this day in 1968, Apollo 7 returned to Earth to splashdown in the Pacific. Apollo 7 was a landmark mission for the program, and served to prove the spacecraft technology for future missions. As the first manned flight after the Apollo 1 tragedy, Apollo 7 also...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, October 22, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Presidential politics revive talk in the U.S. of a human lunar base. Underwater habitats prepare astronauts for low gravity, spacecraft...
Orion and SLS Spinoffs
SLS and Orion will propel our explorers into deep space, but did you know our next-generation spacecraft is already providing benefits on the ground? Check out a few of the technological spinoffs that are already enhancing safety and lowering costs for industries on...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Advanced propulsion will be a crucial part of reaching Mars with humans. A model of a time traveling DeLorean from the movie Back to the Future...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/
