Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) releases its 2019 Annual Report. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced plans Tuesday for an independent investigation into the root cause of the timing issue that prevented...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA is likely to spend much of 2020 working on efforts to accelerate a return to the Moon with human explorers from 2028 to 2024. A launch date for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon abort test slips to no earlier than January 18. NASA’s...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Welcome back and Happy New Year!  Russia and U.S. plan to meet in the Spring to discuss Russia’s role in the NASA led Gateway. Record for longest mission by a women set by Christina Koch. New Mars 2020 rover may look like the previous...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

CDSExtra will be on Holiday hiatus starting Monday, December 23, returning Monday, January 6.  Happy Holidays and a healthy and prosperous New Year to all! In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Congress wraps up work on a 2020 budget for NASA. Boeing’s CST-100...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Florida’s space coast awaits for a Friday 6:36 a.m., EST, liftoff of Boeing’s the CST-100 Starliner on a milestone uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station (ISS). New studies may help to explain how the solar...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA is eager for congressional action on a 2020 spending plan that will permit it to proceed with the development of lunar landers for human missions in partnership with commercial companies. NASA and Boeing are preparing for a Friday...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… A U.S. House/Senate budget compromise released late Monday falls short of the money sought by NASA to work with the commercial sector to develop landers to return human explorers to the surface of the Moon in 2024. A new map of the Martian...

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The U.S. House is progressing with the Senate on a new NASA authorization measure that would extend oversight of the International Space Station (ISS) to 2030. NASA and Boeing set a December 20 launch date for an uncrewed test flight of...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA and Boeing are negotiating terms of future Space Launch System (SLS) core stage rocket production. A NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) study zeros in on subsurface water ice deposits on Mars. Blue Origin’s New Shepard family...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA leadership suggests Artemis 3, an accelerated effort to return to the surface of the Moon with human explorers in 2024, hinges on more than the Artemis 1 Space Launch System (SLS)/Orion test mission. Earth science mission participants...