Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks with workers to acknowledge government shutdown challenges. Europe looks to expand the role of a proposed orbital debris removal spacecraft. Human Space Exploration NASA leadership cautions...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Might human space exploration benefit from regular 10-year priority assessments by the National Academies of Sciences? NASA workers return to their jobs following a record partial shutdown. Human Space Flight Europe’s Space Station...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… This week marks the anniversary of three NASA tragedies, the January 27, 1967 Apollo 1 fire that claimed three lives, the January 28, 1986 shuttle Challenger loss in which seven fliers perished and the February 1, 2003 loss of the shuttle...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… A U.S. Senate bid Thursday to end a record partial U.S. government shutdown failed. Russian space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin receives a scolding over agency performance issues. Blue Origin will break ground Friday in Huntsville, Alabama,...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… U.S. lawmakers continue to resolve a record partial government shutdown whose toll is increasing. Blue Origin logs a 10th successful flight of its reusable suborbital New Shepard launch vehicle. U.S. and Japanese asteroid sample return...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA, Boeing change Commercial Crew Program test flight participant to address medical concern. More Congressional action is planned this week to address growing partial U.S. government shutdown. Russian space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Congress and the White House will try again this week to end an impasse over a budget agreement that has led to a partial government shutdown, including NASA and NOAA, and affected the paychecks of 800,000 workers. The U.S. astronomy and...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Though slowed by a record partial U.S. government shutdown, NASA workers are moving ahead with efforts to support Commercial Crew Program test flights this year and prepare the Space Launch System (SLS) for its inaugural test flight. Human...
Today’s Deep Space Extra
In Today’s Deep Space Extra… U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, plans to re-introduce legislation that would extend NASA’s oversight of the International Space Station (ISS) from 2024 to 2030. The new chair of the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee,...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.