02 April 2020
Thousands Apply to Join NASA’s Artemis Generation, #BeAnAstronaut
...are excited to start reviewing astronaut applications to identify the next class of astronaut candidates.” Since the 1960s, NASA has selected 350 people to train as astronaut candidates for its increasingly challenging missions to explore space. With...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
..., and hydraulic systems. “Today is a great day for NASA, Stennis and this nation’s human space exploration program. This ...solid rocket boosters and other parts of the rocket and NASA’s Orion spacecraft on the mobile launcher inside the Vehicle ...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... a comparison between Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Monarchs, which financed him, to today’s space agencies like NASA. However, today we live in a ‘commercial’ Space Age which has far stronger parallels to the Dutch East India...
12 April 2016
Visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions
... the development of pioneering technologies from diverse and non-traditional sources. By nurturing these visionary ideas, future NASA missions could be transformed with the creation of breakthroughs that are radically better or entirely new aerospace...
16 May 2016
NASA Invests in the Future of Technological Development
...of development, most requiring 10 or more years of concept maturation and technology development before use on a NASA mission. NIAC is funded by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, which innovates, develops, tests, and flies hardware for use...
30 June 2016
Orbital ATK and NASA Successfully Complete Second Qualification Test
...[…] I get visions, I feel that next fall is only a week away –at least that’s what it mentally feels like to me.” NASA’s Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Directorate Bill Gerstenmaier had quite emotionally commented on the...