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    Boeing / North American Rockwell Windjammer SSTO

    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”...
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    Hubble Space Telescope

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    Coronavirus precautions in effect at Star City

    https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astronauts_grounded_in_Russias_Star_City_over_virus_999.html
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    Apollo 13 Anniversary

    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
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    Europa Clipper

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

    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/
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    Dead Spacecraft on Mars Spotted in New Photos (Space.com)

    https://www.space.com/14526-dead-mars-spacecraft-photos-spirit-phoenix.html
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    NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to be retired

    https://www.space.com/why-spitzer-space-telescope-must-end.html https://www.space.com/11985-spitzer-space-telescope-photos-infrared-universe.html
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    NASA Curiosity (Mars Rover)

    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...
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    Viking mission to Mars

    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...
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    Commercial Space Station

    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...
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    Artemis Moon Program

    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...
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    Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveillance Mission

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

    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...
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    Space 1975 Could Von Braun's vision have worked

    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...
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    Mars Sample Return

    https://spacenews.com/mars-sample-return-mission-plans-begin-to-take-shape/
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    MIT IL Mars Reconnaisance Vehicle (Draper Probe)

    https://wehackthemoon.com/tech/martian-probe-first-step-towards-moon-landing
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    Apollo 11 - 50th Anniversary thread

    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/...
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    Top Secret DAMON: the classified reconnaissance payload planned for the fourth space shuttle mission

    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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    Dragonfly mission to Titan

    Awesome news in my book this decision. Official website: http://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/index.php
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