January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... beyond today’s engineering capabilities, it is nonetheless physically possible. Solar sails are a technology whose time has come. NASA, private space groups and other governments are developing the technology for their next generation of scientific...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
...provides accurate communications transmission/reception from Earth. The vehicle would nominally launch as a co-manifested payload on the NASA Space Launch System (SLS) to a lunar distant retrograde orbit, a stable lunar orbit where the service module...
June 2018
Striding through space
..., pointing at his suited white figure in one of the most famous photographs of spaceflight. As he drifted out to 80 feet, the NASA commentator announced: “McCandless and his MMU constitute a separate spacecraft of their own now.” “I’d been told about...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... at large. With thousands more worlds left to uncover, NASA has already dispatched a replacement to carry on where Kepler ...Neptune-sized planets,” added Armstrong. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends NASA’s TESS into space in April 2016. Best of the rest ...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... could establish the US as the world’s leading space power. NASA ramped up its activities to deliver on the President’s commitment, and...the upper stages of a space rocket. Now leading NASA’s rocket developments, Wernher von Braun pushed forward with ...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
...changing’ technology and its development phase was funded by NASA’s STMD's Game Changing Development Program. STMD stands ...communicate with people in deep space is excellent integration of NASA missions and all of our goals," said Lindy Elkins-Tanton...
