Today’s Deep Space Extra for Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. President Obama hosted students at Monday’s “Astronomy Night” at the White House, suggesting some of them may have the...
If We Don’t Push the Limits With Space Exploration, What Are We Really Doing?
By Abigail Harrison, aspiring NASA astronaut & Board Chair at the Mars generation. I believe a love of learning is something that every person is born with. Think about it … when toddlers dump over a bowl of cereal, they are observing and playing with the...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Monday, October 19, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Space exploration, including human missions to Mars as depicted in the successful film drama The Martian, can be inspiring; but real life...
Orion Monthly Accomplishments for September 2015
NASA’s monthly newsletter for September on the development of the Orion spacecraft is here! In this issue: –Lockheed Martin engineers have begun welding together the Exploration Mission-1 Crew Module. –Propulsion tanks for the test article of...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Friday, October 16, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. George Mueller, a pivotal NASA Apollo program manager, has died at 97. NASA appoints new managers to Orion and Space Launch System programs....
Cassini-Huygens launched 18 years ago today
On this day in 1997, NASA and the European Space Agency’s Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral. Cassini-Huygens is a monumental mission to Saturn that is still returning valuable data today. The mission included the Huygens lander that became...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Thursday, October 15, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. China’s space leadership ponders future deep space ventures. Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush likes the idea of a moon colony....Ask Me Anything with NASA’s rocket scientists
Save the date: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Explore Deep Space are hosting a Reddit iAMA on Thursday, Oct 15th at 3:00 p.m. eastern with rocket scientists and engineers working on NASA’s journey to Mars! Participating in the discussing are: Bill...
Today’s Deep Space Extra for Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA appoints new Orion program manager. Studies of pebbles in Mars’ Gale Crater with NASA’s Curiosity rover suggest they were...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/
