Moon Mars Beyond

T+17 ISS

2009-07-15T13:23:00.004+01:00

Essentially complete, ISS will soon have four more modules attached to its primary structure. This research platform will provide the knowledge and experience needed for the first deep space voyages beyond the Moon.

T+16 Constellation

2009-06-09T08:41:00.001+01:00

Brilliant production.

T+15 QPR12

2009-06-03T06:24:00.000+01:00

T+14 Cluster

2009-05-22T21:47:00.001+01:00

T+13 Poster

2009-05-21T11:30:00.002+01:00

At KSC in the Operations and Checkout Building's high bay, a large poster displays an image of the completed Orion crew module. The Orion spacecraft will enable voyages to the moon and help prepare for future voyages to Mars and Beyond.

T+12 Crawler

2009-05-15T11:11:00.004+01:00

An aerial view shows the crawler-transporter at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the crawlerway that stretches from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pads. Used now to take the shuttles to the launch pads, the crawler also will be used to move the Ares rockets on the mobile launcher, or ML, to the launch pad. A new mobile launcher is being built to launch the Orion crew exploration vehicle and the cargo vehicle. The base is being made lighter than space shuttle mobile launcher platforms so the crawler-transporter can pick up the added load of the 345-foot tower and taller rocket. (NASA text)

T+11 Smile

2009-05-13T19:28:00.003+01:00

Astronomer Astronaut John M. Grunsfeld, payload commander, peers into the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Columbia during the first STS-109 extravehicular activity (EVA-1) on March 4, 2002.

T+10 Speech

2009-04-29T06:31:00.004+01:00

A Fictional Space Program - Mike Griffin

T+9 Afar

2009-04-28T16:16:00.004+01:00

Imaged with the Swift space telescope 23 Apr 2009, the most distant object known. Named GRB 090423, it is estimated to be 13.035 billion light-years away.

New Gamma-Ray Burst Smashes Cosmic Distance Record

T+8 Afloat

2009-04-27T16:56:00.007+01:00

Symbolically and actually afloat: a mockup of the Orion command module being tested in the Atlantic Ocean. Orion will carry crews between Earth and Moon orbit and perhaps one day to Mars and beyond.

T+7 Model

2009-04-26T10:03:00.004+01:00

Launch of the world's largest model rocket. It's a 36 feet high scale model of a Saturn V and it climbed over 1000m into the Maryland sky on April 25 2009.

One man's quest to honor America's Saturn V rocket

T+6.1 Slideshow

2009-04-22T22:50:00.004+01:00

T+6 YouTube

2009-04-22T20:02:00.006+01:00

Introducing SLIC, the Super Lightweight Interchangeable Carrier on STS-125 SM4 to carry WFC3 to HST. SLIC is made of carbon fiber with a cyanate ester resin and a titanium metal matrix composite; it's the first all‐composite carrier to fly on the shuttle. This technology is being transferred to the Constellation program.

T+5 Photo

2009-04-22T19:38:00.004+01:00

Imaged 5 Mar 2002: James H. Newman, STS-109 mission specialist, servicing HST in Columbia's cargo bay.

T+4 Document

2009-04-21T06:23:00.006+01:00

Design Reference Architecture 5.0 (pdf)

One way to go.

T+3 Data

2009-04-19T10:05:00.006+01:00

Let's see what Ares I is estimated to cost, converting this CBO image to text yields:

1.0 (2007) + 1.0 (2008) + 1.0 (2009) + 1.3 (2010) +
2.0 (2011) + 1.7 (2012) + 1.4 (2013) + 1.0 (2014) = $10.4 B

This number does not include earlier costs, reserves, Cross Agency Support and Program Integration etc etc.

T+2 Video

2009-04-17T00:08:00.001+01:00

Orbital's COTS CRS heading uphill, docking with ISS and reentry.

T+1 Image

2009-04-17T00:04:00.000+01:00

DRA 5.0 concept image - going beyond Mars.