...robotic spacecraft to demonstrate early human exploration capabilities. The 25-28 day mission will use longer-duration operations in deep space than ever before and will allow NASA to test capabilities including life support, extra-vehicular activity...
... second generation of tracking stations in Australia, with three stations established south of the city - Tidbinbilla (for the Deep Space Network), Orroral Valley (for the Satellite Tracking and Data Acquisition Network station) and Honeysuckle Creek...
... from ground-based telescopes, Earth-orbiting observatories and deep space missions, such as those returned by the Cassini...bodies and of exoplanets. She is Chair of the European Space Sciences Committee, of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection and...
..., this is not the end for this blossoming box technology that is just beginning to see its debut in deep space missions. Once perfected, these wafercrafts could then be mass manufactured at an incredibly low cost and packed into...
... unfavourable factors during missions to the Moon and deep space. Since the 1960s, Russian specialists have been ...nutrition for projects involving lunar colonisation and flights into deep space, we need to develop the necessary technical equipment and...
... regained. Apollo engineers are long since retired or dead, and with them their unique institutional knowledge of deep space human space travel. Arguably, China is conducting the current lunar race from a better operational position than the...