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https://spacenews.com/nasa-planetary-defense-efforts-continue-during-pandemic/

Details of this proposed mission on the links below: Attached is a presentation detailing the mission from: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/exoplanets2020/presentations/Rymer.pdf

The other day I was looking at some space proposals from the past and I stumbled upon this beautiful SSTO. I have only been able to find one source that gave some details about it and I'm very much hoping that you guys can help get more details/drawings on this proposal. "The ”Windjammer”...

Thought I would post about this book I had just read. Its title is "Autopsy for a Cosmonaut" by Jacob Hay and John M. Keshishian, MD. Published by Little, Brown and Company, NYC. Published in Feb. 1969. It's basically a story about a Soviet manned space shot that ended badly for its...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astronauts_grounded_in_Russias_Star_City_over_virus_999.html

https://www.space.com/apollo-13-real-time-website.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_we_have_a_problem

Time this has its own thread. https://spacenews.com/europa-clipper-seeking-savings-as-cost-reserves-plummet/

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/

https://www.space.com/14526-dead-mars-spacecraft-photos-spirit-phoenix.html

https://www.space.com/why-spitzer-space-telescope-must-end.html https://www.space.com/11985-spitzer-space-telescope-photos-infrared-universe.html

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...

https://spacenews.com/nasa-to-develop-mission-to-search-for-near-earth-asteroids/

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...

https://spacenews.com/mars-sample-return-mission-plans-begin-to-take-shape/

https://wehackthemoon.com/tech/martian-probe-first-step-towards-moon-landing