Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visits Canada to discuss a role in plans for a U.S. lunar orbiting, human tended Gateway. Science activities aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have not stalled in response to an October 11...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA plans to include laser communications aboard the Orion capsule under development to launch astronauts on future missions of deep space exploration. New space technologies and private benefactors may open a door for non-government...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stresses a human return to the Moon will prepare explorers for their next destination, Mars. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) vision of a Moon Village would offer a further opportunity for...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Impact and results of U.S. Congressional Mid Term elections continues to unfold. FAA grants a space launch license to the Cape Canaveral Shuttle Spaceport Landing Facility on Florida’s Space Coast. Mid-Term Election Results The...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Assessments of this week’s Congressional mid-term election outcome on U.S. space policy gets underway. Japan’s seventh re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) draws to a close. Human Space Exploration...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The first European Space Agency (ESA) service module for NASA’s Orion crew capsule reached NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on Tuesday. Tuesday’s U.S. mid-term congressional elections will bring changes to House and...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… The outcome of Tuesday’s U.S. Congressional elections could alter the makeup of the House and Senate panels responsible for NASA appropriations and policy. Might Ceres lure justify a Dawn II mission?  With NASA’s Mars bound...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… NASA’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) Orion Capsule will receive its European service module this week, a milestone in efforts to prepare the spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) for their inaugural joint test flight, an...

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Russia’s federal space agency announces formal conclusions from its investigation into the safe but dramatic Soyuz rocket launch abort with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin aboard. Russia plans to resume soyuz...
Today’s Deep Space Extra

Today’s Deep Space Extra

In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Russian human spaceflight official points to rocket sensor issue as the cause of October 11 soyuz rocket launch abort with NASA and Russian crew members bound for the International Space Station (ISS). NASA’s Nick Hague and cosmonaut...