Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, October 30, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The U.S. Senate early Friday joined the House in approving a two year budget/debt limit deal that goes to President Obama for signature. NASA...
John Glenn’s second spaceflight anniversary
On this day in 1998, John Glenn returned to space and became the oldest human to do so. John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, preforming a four-hour flight in the Friendship-7 spacecraft on Feb. 20, 1962. After retiring from the Astronaut Corps. and...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, October 29, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The Coalition for Space Exploration to formalize organization. Cassini, the long running U.S., European and Italian spacecraft mission at...
Coalition for Space Exploration takes steps to ensure broad support for deep-space exploration
Organization establishes new structure, undergoes name change and announces its first executive director The Coalition for Space Exploration, an ad-hoc organization of space industry businesses and advocacy groups, today announced it is taking formal steps to...
NASA’s Next Megarocket could launch mission to Europa
The huge rocket NASA is developing to get astronauts to an asteroid, Mars and other distant destinations should also greatly aid robotic exploration efforts, members of Congress were told Tuesday (July 28). The Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, scheduled to fly...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. United Launch Alliance joined Boeing this week in presenting NASA with an upper stage for the Space Launch System exploration rocket. The ULA...
SLS and tomorrow’s destinations
“For the first time, humans will be a dual-planet species.” Have you seen the variety of missions that SLS could be used for? From a return to the moon to an extra-solar jaunt, SLS will be able to deliver our human and robotic explorers to incredible...
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...Space Talk
No single telescope can tell the whole story of our Universe!
As we look ahead to the launch of #NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a new chapter in cosmic exploration is about to begin.
Each #NASA space telescope sees the Universe differently - revealing its stars,
A spacewalk starts long before the hatch opens. 👨🚀🛰️
Astronaut Anil Menon says preparations can begin around 8 hours earlier, with equipment checks, suit-up procedures and breathing 100% oxygen before the EVA.
Hours of work go into every step outside the ISS.
#Space #Spacewalk
HiRISE 3D: A Very Small Landslide
This image highlights a landslide starting near the bottom of a slope, which is hard to discern details in Context Camera data, but a great target for HiRISE.
https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_093194_1845_ESP_093339_1845_RED
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars #NASA #science
Less than a week until Roman takes flight! 🔭🚀
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is targeting an Aug. 30 launch aboard Falcon Heavy.
With Hubble-like sharpness but a field of view ~100× larger, Roman will survey huge areas of the cosmos.
#Space #SpaceExploration
