NASA Funds Eight Studies to Protect Astronaut Health on Long Missions (www.nasa.gov)
NASA is funding eight new studies aimed at better understanding how the human body reacts to spaceflight. These studies will be done on Earth without the need
SpaceX to launch 22 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida this evening (www.space.com)
Liftoff is scheduled for 6:39 p.m. ET tonight (Sept. 29).
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases asteroid sample capsule toward Earth in flyby, heads to Apophis (www.space.com)
OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.
NASA's mighty SLS megarocket for Artemis moonshots 'unaffordable' for sustained exploration, audit finds (www.space.com)
The decade-long concerns continue. NASA needs to be more transparent about the costs and schedules associated with its Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket, a newly released audit has found.
Spies and hackers are targeting the US space industry: report (www.space.com)
The warning comes as the U.S. space economy is predicted to reach $1 trillion by 2030.
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer satellite is ready to hunt for water on the moon (www.space.com)
Lunar Trailblazer joins a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.
This Canadian satellite was supposed to last 2 years in space. It's now celebrating 20 (www.space.com)
Scisat tracks changes in the atmosphere that could 'delay the ozone recovery in a warming world.'
Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight is about to launch (archive.is)
Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic’s first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, is scheduled to launch from New Mexico on 10 August
These new photos of SpaceX's giant Starship Booster 9 engine test are just gorgeous (www.space.com)
The company shared a handful of static-fire shots via social media on Tuesday (Aug. 8).
NASA funds moon projects to help missions to ‘live off the land’ (www.msn.com)
NASA took a significant step Tuesday toward allowing humans on the moon to “live off the land,” awarding several contracts to build landing pads, roads and habitats on the lunar surface, use nuclear power for energy, and even lay a high-voltage power line over half a mile....
Seven US Companies Collaborate with NASA to Advance Space Capabilities (www.nasa.gov)
NASA will partner with seven U.S. companies to meet future business and government needs, ultimately benefitting human spaceflight and the U.S. commercial low Earth orbit economy.
