Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… A new report outlines international objectives for lunar exploration. Large numbers of stars within the Milky Way galaxy may be suited to host rocky planets with life-friendly environments. Human Space ExplorationNew report outlines...

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA raises concerns over proposed constellation of large low Earth orbit communications satellites. Space Station experiment identifies a protein that could slow the ill effects of aging. U.S. election outcome was continuing to unfold...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… As the International Space Station reaches 20 years of permanent habitation, the space community continues to discuss plans for the next chapter in low Earth orbit research and human spaceflight. NASA contacts Voyager 2 for the first time...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Today marks 20 years of continuous human presence in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In a new op-ed, the Coalition’s President and CEO Dr. Mary Lynne Dittmar explains why our national programs in exploration and...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Samples of asteroid Bennu collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have been successfully sealed in the probe’s Sample Return Capsule in preparation for a 2023 return to Earth. Observations of the Milky Way suggest planets...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The International Space Station will soon mark 20 years of continuous habitation. NASA is targeting November 14 for the first operational Crew Dragon mission to the ISS but wants to confirm Falcon 9 issues found earlier this month have...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA and ESA formalize plans to join together to build the Gateway through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) announced Tuesday. NASA’s Perseverance rover has crossed the halfway point of its journey to Mars. Human Space...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA faces budget uncertainty in efforts to develop a lunar Human Landing System (HLS) to achieve its goal of returning humans to the Moon in 2024. Water on the Moon could be much more prevalent than believed. Human Space...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) “Green Run” test campaign moving ahead to conclude in November. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx appears to have gathered a generous, maybe too generous, sample of material from the surface of...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA completes certification reviews for competing lunar Human Landing Systems (HLS). The President signs the PROSWIFT space weather bill. Japan prepares to seek a new generation of astronauts. Human Space ExplorationNASA, human lunar...