Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Congressional auditors on Wednesday offered a harsh assessment of NASA’s efforts to develop the large rocket, crew capsule and ground systems needed to resume human deep space exploration. The National Academies urged NASA to pursue...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Congressional auditors on Wednesday offered a harsh assessment of NASA’s efforts to develop the large rocket, crew capsule and ground systems needed to resume human deep space exploration. The National Academies urged NASA to pursue...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The cost and schedule of Artemis, the White House directive that NASA return to the surface of the Moon with human explorers by 2024, continues to draw scrutiny. John F Kennedy Presidential Library “Space Summit” begins at 9:00 am with an...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Step by step, NASA is pressing towards a human return to the surface of the Moon in 2024, an initiative with security as well as scientific significance. At the Paris Air Show, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine comments on Commercial Crew...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s plans to accelerate a human return to the Moon from 2028 to 2024 promises to be topic at the annual Paris Air Show as well as in Washington. Meanwhile, preparations are underway for a critical test of the Orion capsule’s...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
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,...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
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...Today’s Deep Space Extra
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...Space Talk
This tiny box may make a future global quantum internet possible — but first, it's heading to space in 2027 for a year-long experiment.
Read about our Q4S quantum networking satellite system, which recently completed ground testing: https://www.boeing.com/features/2026/06/boeing-takes-a-major-step-toward-the-quantum-internet
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I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans."
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Dengue, which is spread by mosquitoes, is a serious health threat in Puerto Rico and a growing concern in parts of the U.S. 🦟
Scientists are using @NASA data to track the environmental conditions linked to dengue and improve forecasts of dengue risk in Puerto Rico.
There’s only one planet we know of with life - our own. Getting to study objects that formed in a different system than our own is a rare opportunity for learning how common, or uncommon, the conditions are for the evolution of life elsewhere in the universe.