May 2, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s third flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion capsule could be the mission that returns human explorers to the lunar surface in 2024. NASA is still addressing the increase in the agency’s annual budgets needed...
May 1, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA plans International Space Station (ISS) robot arm operations to overcome an external solar power issue aboard the six person orbiting science lab that has prompted a delay this week in the launch of a NASA contracted SpaceX cargo...
Apr 30, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Space Station program is working a power issue aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that will affect plans for a SpaceX cargo mission launch planned for early Wednesday. Experts gather at the University of Maryland to...
Apr 29, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The nation’s space community continues its discussion of an accelerated, NASA-led human return to the Moon, to which a fully tested Space Launch System is indispensable. An amended NASA budget proposal to fund the initiative may be...
Apr 26, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s independent Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel urges policy makers, as well as NASA, not to side step testing for crew safety and technical risk as it moves forward with plans to return to the Moon with human explorers and...
Apr 25, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… China’s space chief outlines plans to reach the Moon’s south pole with human explorers in a decade. College students offer a strategy to shield astronauts on deep space missions from harmful radiation. The Hubble Space...
Apr 24, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA evolving strategy for accelerating a human return to the lunar surface by 2024 calls for a human-tended, lunar orbiting Gateway, a South Pole field station, a surface nuclear power source and a pressurized rover. NASA is working with...
Apr 23, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA and SpaceX are moving ahead with plans for the April 30 launch of the company’s 17th contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station, while they investigate a Crew Dragon thruster explosion last Saturday. The...
Apr 22, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The Trump Administration wants to get American back the Moon by 2024. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program experienced a possible setback Saturday when SpaceX Crew Dragon flight test hardware exploded during ground preparations at Cape...
Apr 19, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Northrop Grumman’s latest Cygnus re-supply mission to the six person International Space Station (ISS) reached its orbital destination early Friday. Japan assesses a robotic strategy to construct a Moon base. China looks to an...