March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
...of Star Trek, Star Wars, and other fanciful stories. NASA’s Deep Space 1 (DS1) mission, which tested ion ...exceptional capability of the ion propulsion system. Without that technology, NASA’s Discovery Program would not have been able to afford a ...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
... an initial goal of reducing cost per pound of cargo to orbit to $1,000.11 This figure is traceable to a series of studies fostered by NASA and the US Department of Defense from the 1970s–90s.12 Those studies pointed to launch costs as the constraint...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
...could be found in a novel collaboration between industry and NASA, which we will discuss later. Collaboration between governments and ... of the total overall NEO detection programme. NASA benefited, Planetary Resources benefited, the science community...
August 2016
Space for art
...from that awesome and surreal vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS). Inspirational artwork used by NASA in a series of posters designed to inspire future generations to think about living and working on other planets. That incredibly...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
...be the world’s politicians that will quickly point the finger at NASA, at ESA, at JAXA, at Roscosmos, at the Chinese ...Security, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation and NASA, among others, to address the problem of solar storms....
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... from cosmic rays reaching the surface, based on cosmic-radiation measurements by the Mars radiation environment experiment on NASA’s Mars 2000 Odyssey spacecraft, plus information about Mars’ surface elevations from the laser altimeter instrument...
