Today’s Deep Space Extra, Friday, August 7, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The National Research Council presses NASA for a response to a year-old assessment of the agency’s human deep space exploration strategy,...
The 19th shuttle mission landed on this day in 1985
On this day in 1985, the 19th flight of the Space Shuttle program, STS-51-F, landed at Edwards Air Force Base. STS-51-F was unique for two reasons: it delivered Spacelab 2 to orbit, and it was the only Space Shuttle mission to have performed an abort after launching,...Today’s Deep Space Extra, Thursday, August 6, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The Martian, fictional best seller and soon-to-open feature film, signals a new enthusiasm for the challenges of human space exploration, say...
Learn more about SLS propulsion in today’s Tweet Chat with NASA
NASA will be hosting a Tweet Chat today at 2:30 p.m. Central/3:30 p.m. Eastern with propulsion engineers Kathryn Crowe and Tim Duquette on the engineering behind the RS-25 engines–the workhorses in SLS’s core stage. As the most powerful rocket ever built,...
Today’s Deep Space Extra, Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Saturn V rocket components recovered from the Atlantic Ocean and restored are ready for museum display. Mars One proponents and doubter will...
16 years of Chandra images
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe, has been revealing the msyteries of the universe for 16 years now. One of the Great Observatories, Chandra was carried to space in the payload bay of...Today’s Deep Space Extra, Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. In late August, a half-dozen experts will start a yearlong Mars mission simulation atop Mauna Loa in Hawaii. European service module...The most versatile spacecraft ever made
The versatility of NASA’s Orion spacecraft will be unmatched among any other spacecraft in history. Capable of supporting four astronauts for up to 21 days, Orion will be America’s first truly deep space exploration vehicle. Combined with a service module,...Today’s Deep Space Extra, Monday, August 3, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. The Aquarius undersea lab provides shelter for U.S., European and Japanese astronauts for two week space simulation. NASA’s Space Launch...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/
