Today’s Deep Space Extra, Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA includes a possible human mission to the Martian moon Phobos in Space Launch System planning. Imagery of the Apollo moon walkers will help...
NASA’s Orbital Workshop Concept
Have you ever heard of NASA’s Orbital Workshop concept? First proposed in 1965, the Orbital Workshop was conceived as a manned orbital telescope and space station, crewed by one or more astronauts and continually and serviced by Saturn and Apollo vehicles....
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA is closer than ever to reaching Mars with human explorers, Administrator Charles Bolden says during a Washington event discussing The...
The Martian Exploration Family
Can you name all of our Mars missions? With a success rate of about 50%, the incredibly difficult path to Mars is littered with failed spacecraft. While the U.S. has had moderately more success with Mars missions, the losses of the Mars Observer, the Mars Climate...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Monday, September 21, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden declares human explorers closer than ever to reaching Mars. The Martian, slated to open in movie theaters...
New Horizons Mission transmits most detailed images of Pluto yet
Have you seen the latest from New Horizons? NASA JPL’s mission to Pluto has returned some more absolutely stunning images from the distant Kuiper Belt object. “This new view of Pluto’s crescent – taken by New Horizons’ wide-angle Ralph/Multispectral Visual...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, September 18. 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Though a challenge, humans will reach Mars with more assets than the Apollo astronauts had as they stepped to the surface of the moon, says...
226 years since the discovery of Mimas
On this day in 1789, William Herschel discovered Mimas, the seventh known satellite of Saturn. Herschel discovered Mimas only three weeks after discovering Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest moon. He credits the discoveries to the development of his 40-foot...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, September 17, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Top NASA officials announce a likely two year delay, from 2021 to 2023, in the launching of the first test flight of the Orion crew exploration...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/
