Explore Mars, Inc. is saddened by the passing of Jesco von Puttkamer.  Jesco worked at NASA for fifty years. In 1962, he left Germany to join Werner von Braun’s rocket team in Huntsville, Alabama and worked as an engineer on the Apollo Program. In the early 1970s, he moved to NASA HQ where he worked on numerous [...]

An international research team led by the Planetary Science Institute has found evidence that indicates that approximately 2 billion years ago enormous volumes of catastrophic floods discharges may have been captured by extensive systems of caverns on Mars, according to J. Alexis Palmero Rodriguez, PSI Research Scientist,
Rodriguez and the research team came to this conclusion [...]

There have been some reports saying that the OrbComm satellite was a failure as Dragon did not get it in the higher orbit it was originally intended for. However OrbComm was overal satisfied as it did gain enough data from the ‘bad’ orbit  to proceed with the launch of the full constellation starting next year. [...]

October 6, Saturday
3 p.m. – NASA Science Briefing – KSC (All Channels)
6 p.m. – SpaceX CRS-1/Dragon Pre-Launch Briefing – KSC (All Channels)

October 7, Sunday
7 p.m. – Launch Coverage for the SpaceX/Dragon CRS-1 Mission to the International Space Station (Launch scheduled at 8:35 p.m. ET) – KSC (All Channels)
10 p.m. – SpaceX CRS-1/Dragon Post-Launch Briefing – KSC (All Channels)

October 10, [...]

Going crazy reading NASA documents like the report of the MPPG (and that is one of those acronyms) not remembering exactly what an acronym is standing for?
You are not alone.
Find what the last slide of the MPPG report yielded in explanations of all that lettersoup.