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 ...
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...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
...develop their own human spaceflight systems. Then in 2014 NASA announced that Boeing and SpaceX would share $6.8 billion...pioneering ISS crew. Additional team members will be assigned by NASA’s international partners at a later date. The agency has ...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
...side of the Moon into a giant radio telescope. NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) is a ... successful applicants is Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, a robotics technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Bandyopadhyay’s idea is...
