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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

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...

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

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

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/...

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

Winner of NASA's latest 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge.

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...

The flight campaign for the American space shuttle began on April 12, 1981, with the launch of STS-1 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and ended on July 21, 2011, with wheels stop of STS-135. During the 30 years and 135 missions in between, the program experienced triumphs and tragedies...

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NASA spacecraft days away from risky landing (AP, via The Japan News) https://www.apnews.com/80b0bb92a4a147a0bb0b99626c96044d https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/overview/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/timeline/overview/ https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/about-the-lander/...

The BepiColombo space probe is heading towards Mercury after a successful launch at 02:45 BST. It will take seven years for BepiColombo to reach Mercury. BBC News article. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45838991 And this is the full launch of BepiColombo from the Arianespace...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/lockheed-martin-unveils-a-super-sized-lunar-lander-for-four-humans/