Jul 28, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Experts suggest a moon base could offer a less costly means of reaching Mars with human explorers. NASA’s Dava Newman brings more than...
Jul 27, 2015
The 51st Joint Propulsion Conference kicks off today in Orlando, FL. Participants will be discussing next-gen commercial and government-sponsored launch systems, orbital insertions, satellites and interstellar propulsion. This conference regularly produces fascinating...
Jul 27, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. Could NASA’s commercial models for launching supplies and humans to the International Space Station enable a near term, cost saving...
Jul 24, 2015
The Journey to Mars panels at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh are wrapping up today with panels on women in aerospace and the search for life in the cosmos. Check our Facebook and Twitter pages throughout the day for more updates! Former astronaut Charlie Precourt answers...
Jul 24, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA’s Space Launch System exploration rocket is closing in on the conclusion of a key milestone, Critical Design...
Jul 24, 2015
EAA’s AirVenture event in Oshkosh, Wisconsin is happening this week, and the CSE will be there! Experts from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK and Northrop Grumman will be participating on panels from Wednesday to Friday, July 22-24, covering topics ranging from...
Jul 23, 2015
Aerojet Rocketdyne put SLS’s RS-25 engines through their paces last month with its fourth hot-fire engine test this year. These engines will be powering America’s return to deep space exploration, starting with SLS’s first test flight in 2018. Stay...
Jul 23, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. NASA prepares to announce new extra-terrestrial planet discoveries. Earth takes an early pounding that may have influenced habitability....
Jul 22, 2015
NASA’s Dawn mission has been providing breathtaking imagery from the solar system’s largest dwarf planet, Ceres, since orbital insertion earlier this year. When the spacecraft begins its High Altitude Mapping Orbit next month, expect even higher-resolution...
Jul 22, 2015
Today’s Deep Space Extra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from across the globe. New images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a Pluto mountain range and the strange moons Nix and Hydra. NASA Ames alum Pete...