First commercial module to be docked to ISS. Eventually they will separate from ISS once a power module is launched to form the Axiom Station.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/01/nasa-axiom-space-build-commercial-station-segment/
With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: Oxygen
For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, they noticed...
Yep George Levin has stirred this up again with a new opinion piece in Scientific American.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinced-we-found-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-the-1970s/
Here’s a support article...
Another new NASA project based on the NextSTEP program.
Story
https://spacenews.com/nasa-looks-to-support-development-of-commercial-space-stations/
Obviously Bigelow will make this a "must win" effort. Hopefully, someone will have an artificial G proposal. Or maybe Bigelow can steal an old...
Artemis is the overall NASA program aimed at re-establishing manned lunar exploration which includes the "lunar gateway".
A human rated, reusable lander is being developed using the model of the commercial crew program. The schedule goal is to conduct the first, un-crewed landing in 2024...
From NASA Systems Analysis And Concepts Division
https://sacd.larc.nasa.gov/vab/vab-projects/hercules/
So let’s see, we got:
-an escape capsule
-an escape module within the escape capsule
-a ballute decelerator
-parachutes
-deployable crush absorber
-and retro rockets
And the abandoned...
Just been leafing through a copy of an old Brooke Bond card album about spaceflight which ends with various NASA projects planned before Nixon went for a leaner option
I also have Stephen Baxter's novel VOYAGE about a US manned mission to Mars in the 80s.
To get the Von Braun vision to work...
To start off with:
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-363-foot-projection-of-a-rocket-will-be-flashed-14088032.php
Here's a few threads, old and otherwise, on subjects related to Apollo 11:
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/astrorocket-saturn-derived-apollo-documents-sale.2991/...
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3748/1
Top Secret DAMON: the classified reconnaissance payload planned for the fourth space shuttle mission
by Dwayne A. Day
Monday, July 1, 2019
The first military/intelligence payload ever scheduled to fly aboard the Space Shuttle was a top-secret...
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NASA Opens International Space Station to New Commercial Opportunities, Private Astronauts
NASA is opening the International Space Station for commercial business so U.S. industry innovation and ingenuity can accelerate a thriving commercial economy in low-Earth orbit.
This move comes as NASA...
This is one of the steps on the road to the Hubble Space Telescope. At this point in the process the telescope contains a lot of Apollo legacy hardware and was designed so that the shuttle could be docked with it to allow maintenance and instrument swap-outs to take place in a shirtsleeve...
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