About Space Today

About Space Today

By Broadcast Journalist David Denault, former NPR Space Correspondent.NewsScienceNews CommentaryAstronomy
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About Space Today episodes

  • MARS ROVER TO LAUNCH ON HISTORIC MOON LANDING DATE
    About Space Today's Washington Bureau Chief, Rick Potlock introduces the upcoming mission of the Mars 2020 Rover to launch on July 20th,  ironically, the 51st anniversary of the historic Moon landing of Apollo 11.
    NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine comments on the historical implications of returning Martian soil samples to Earth.
    6 min
  • Be A Space Tourist
    In the past few weeks questions on how to be a space tourist and visit the International Space Station.  Today, you'll find out just how much a trip costs for the round trip and the daily service charges.  Get your pen and paper ready.  
    Our Return to the Moon to Stay series, we will hear from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstien that going to the Moon is not just the United States.
    6 min
  • Astronauts Are People Too!
    In our continuing series, America In Space, Rick Potlock joins International Space Station (ISS) Commander, Chris Cassidy during a news conference from space and that astronauts are people too!
    6 min
  • The Crew Module if the Lunar Gateway
    In our continuing series of Return To the Moon To Stay, NASA has just finalized the initial crew module of the agency's Gateway lunar orbiting outpost and is about the size of a small studio apartment.
    9 min
  • The XL-1 Moon Lander
    In our Return To The Moon To Stay series, Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California was selected by NASA to deliver and operate eight payloads to the Moon's South Pole in 2022, that will lay the foundation for the first women and next man on the Moon.
    8 min
  • America's Return To Space
    for the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated spacecraft to take American crew to the International Space Station.
    9 min
  • Launch and Westher News Update
    in just a little more than three hours from now, NASA and Space X will make another attempt for a launch.  Dawn Meyer, AST's Florida Space News Editor recaps why the weather forced Wednesday's scrub and today's forecast.
    3 min

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AMERICA'S RETURN TO SPACE - News and Information on America's space program - Artemis Return to Moon and on to Mars. Space X Crew Missions to the International Space Station and our unmanned scientific satellites and rovers on Mars.

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