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As NASA has now decided to continue on with this mission, now targeting a launch in late 2023 I thought it should have its own separate thread. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-continues-psyche-asteroid-mission

I think this propulsion concept fell between the cracks at the time the Phase I and II NIAC reports were released in I believe circa 2007. To start with, this is a type of sail which exploits the solar wind, is considered a drag device...like a sailboat in the wind. For this reason I'm not...

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA497223.pdf

The Kistler K-1 is dicussed in some threads here, but I could not find a dedicated thread to it, so... Here is the animation of Bedpost Rocket by Hazegrayart. From the video description: " An early design concept sometimes referred to as the Bedpost Rocket the Kistler K-1 was a two-stage...

From a couple of days ago, via the Space Reddit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/25-years-of-continuous-robotic-mars-exploration-from-pathfinder-to-perseverance

View: https://twitter.com/ExploreIGO/status/1568673629856043010

Results of ESA studies, looks like they are going to invest more into SSP. View: https://twitter.com/AschbacherJosef/status/1559553177598435328? View: https://youtu.be/8ScTbb-43A4

https://history.nasa.gov/sp4543.pdf This document published in 2009 contains a summary of published books about NASA history and also a guide to the collections and archives found at various NASA locations. Looks potentially useful for researchers.

Star Trek was part of my childhood TV and it was one of those programmes that my parents watched too. Nichelle Nichols famously only stayed on in the role because Dr Martin Luther King told her she should. She was a fine lady whose smile lit up the screen. .

From late Curtis Peebles collection at SDASM Flickr collection

Seems to have quite an early proposed flight date of fiscal year 2026. https://spacenews.com/darpa-moving-forward-with-development-of-nuclear-powered-spacecraft/

NASA's Lunar Outpost Heavy Lift Vehicle: The Comet Rocket <iframe width="560" height="315" src=" View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/uSZtnRJzSBA " title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"...

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-futuristic-space-technology-concepts-for-early-study/

NASA Provides Laser for LISA Mission

https://thespacereview.com/article/4228/1 The little satellite that could How a vice president’s dream led—after a very long delay—to the DSCOVR spacecraft by Dwayne A. Day Monday, August 16, 2021 If satellites had personalities, DSCOVR would be a scrappy little fighter: battered, bloody, but...

Probably best I post this here considering the contentious nature of the whole thing if you pardon the pun. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/russias-space-program-just-threw-a-nasa-astronaut-under-the-bus/ View: https://twitter.com/SpcPlcyOnline/status/1426234829742526464 View...

https://www.nasa.gov/chapea https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-is-recruiting-for-yearlong-simulated-mars-mission

Hi folks, I have the pleasure to introduce you my next book, always done with my friend and co-author Michael H. Gorn, dedicated to the NASA X-Planes (and we all know they aren't definitely all planes...) from X-1 to the X-60. It will released by Springer-Praxis next 8th of January 2022...