Experience Mars with ‘Experience Curiosity’
Want to drive a Mars rover? NASA JPL’s ‘Experience Curiosity’ lets you be a virtual commander of the Curiosity rover in a 3D representation of the Martian surface. The simulation uses real photos from Curiosity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter....
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Monday, August 31, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. A NASA research effort aims for more accurate Mars spacecraft landings. In Hawaii, six scientists initiate a year-long Mars spaceflight...
July highlights from the SLS team
July’s SLS Highlights Report is ready for your consumption! In this issue: SLS’s development for an eventual Mars mission is evaluated, a Simsbury, CT industry partner is highlighted, and the construction of the core stage hydrogen tanks is documented....
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, August 28, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Andy Weir, author of The Martian, predicts human exploration of the red planet by 2050, sooner if Congress backs the plans. The moon has a good...
The Mariner 2 launch was 53 years ago today
Mariner 2, the first human probe to Venus, launched from Cape Canaveral on this day in 1962. Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to encounter another planet, and confirmed that Venus has cool clouds and an extremely hot surface. Mariner 2 also set the stage for future...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, August 27, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s Orion capsule clears a milestone unpiloted parachute recovery test. The 2016 U.S. presidential candidates and their stance on...
Stennis Space Center SLS Test Stand gains about a million pounds
Engineers working at Stennis Space Center just recently completed a massive steel tower that will be used to test the Space Launch System’s (SLS) core stage to prepare for SLS’s first launch in 2018. First built in the 1960s to test the Saturn V and Space...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Mars One: Billionaires could make visions of a red planet settlement possible. Orion capsule testing takes place at YPG. NASA’s Dawn...
‘The Time is Now’ for America’s Journey to Mars
Have you seen this op-ed in Roll Call from NASA veterans Doug Cooke and Dan Dumbacher? A mission to Mars would be extremely valuable to the country, both scientifically and financially. Congress must act now to ensure our continuing leadership in space. Do you...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/
