Jun 14, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Administrator Bridenstine discusses early budgetary estimates for Artemis mission – projections that may change as the agency refines planning. China and India discuss plans for future independent space stations. Women, more than men,...
Jun 13, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Artemis moon program could send the first woman to the Moon. A new Washington D.C. street name pays tribute to African American women and human spaceflight pioneers Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson. A new...
Jun 12, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) wants the agency to apply lessons learned with Commercial Crew Program to development of a lunar lander. Meanwhile, some in Congress are expressing concern NASA’s efforts to accelerate a...
Jun 11, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA sets course for the Artemis Generation. Upcoming NASA space experiments will demonstrate an atomic clock for future human deep space navigation and a more environmentally friendly spacecraft propellant. Efforts by the U.S. House and...
Jun 10, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA has outlined a strategy to encourage a growing low Earth orbit economy by granting commercial companies and astronauts access to the International Space Station (ISS). Reaching the lunar surface with human explorers is a necessary...
Jun 7, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Without a recently requested $1.6 billion supplement to the agency’s 2020 budget request, NASA will not be able to accelerate a human return to the Moon from 2028 to 2024, says NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. At the same time,...
Jun 6, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Public activities across the U.S. are planned to commemorate this summer’s 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing. Space plant growth prospects are looking up. A new assessment questions forecasts of a $1 trillion...
Jun 5, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Studies of a candidate Northrop Grumman habitat for a lunar orbiting human tended NASA Gateway conclude. Lawmakers consider measures to protect the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon. An experimental supercomputer returns to Earth from the...
Jun 4, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA could be challenged in its quest to return to the lunar surface with human explorers in 2024 without seeking funds from other programs if Congress does not approve additional annual funds. Scientists rally to support more “one...
Jun 3, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… As the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 nears, talk of future as well as past lunar voyages grows. NASA names three companies selected to deliver science payloads to the lunar surface. Astronomers ponder volcanism on Pluto. Human Space...