Today’s Deep Space Extra
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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
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...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Wednesday brought a successful Cygnus launch headed to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA is extending the missions of two astronauts assigned to the International Space Station (ISS) in order to gather more data on how long space...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… A NASA contracted Northrop Grumman resupply mission carrying science experiments and technology demonstrations as well as crew supplies is to liftoff for the six person International Space Station (ISS) late Wednesday afternoon from...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Boeing and NASA worked to bring the scheduled completion date of Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage back to the end of 2019. NASA’s SLS is a critical part of the nation’s human deep exploration future, writes on space...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… As NASA moves out to accelerate a return to the surface of the Moon with astronauts from 2028 to 2024 potential international partners are assessing how they can fit in. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine acknowledges funding is a concern...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
I wrote about the rise of optical communications through the lens of a company called Observable Space, which was co-founded by SpaceX's former VP of Software.
This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it
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.