May 15, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine cheers efforts to accelerate the return of human explorers to the surface of the Moon by 2024 in remarks before the Human to Mars Summit and in a town hall meeting with agency employees. A new model of...
May 14, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The White House announced late Monday it will seek an additional $1.6 billion for NASA in 2020 to help accelerate plans to return human explorers to the surface of the Moon from 2028 to 2024. The congressional request supplements the $21...
May 13, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s efforts to meet a new 2024 deadline for a human return to the surface of the Moon and how it will be funded continue to provide a rich topic of discussion with the space community. But the effort, a partnership between NASA...
May 10, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Blue Origin presents its version of a commercial lunar lander that could join NASA’s efforts to return to the surface of the Moon with human explorers by 2024. Some experts are not ruling out some form of life on Mars. A plentiful...
May 9, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Members of the House Space Subcommittee expressed frustration Wednesday over the delay of a 2020 President’s Budget Request supplement for NASA, to include proposed steps and costs for an accelerated human return to the Moon. Boeing...
May 8, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… International Space Station (ISS) experiments seek insight into health challenges for human deep space explorers. Intense solar activity may be headed toward Earth. Debris from Indian ASAT test still in orbit.Human Space ExplorationStaying...
May 7, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Vice President Mike Pence reasserts the administration’s commitment to space in a speech at the 2019 Satellite Conference. NASA’s latest cargo mission to the six person International Space Station (ISS) reached its destination...
May 6, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The International Space Station (ISS) crew welcomes the arrival of a NASA contracted cargo mission early Monday. Last week’s Planetary Defense Conference featured simulated discovery and preparations for a possible asteroid impact...
May 3, 2019
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… SpaceX offers new details regarding a destructive April 20 incident in which Crew Dragon abort thrusters were being prepared for an upcoming flight test. Efforts to launch the company’s 17th NASA contracted cargo mission to the...
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...