Astrobiology: The Search for Biosignatures in our Solar System and Beyond On December 4, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Exploration held a hearing about the search for extraterrestrial life. It was given the title: “Astrobiology: The Search for Biosignatures in our Solar System and Beyond.” Below is the official hearing charter about the event. Astrobiology: The Search for Biosignatures in our Solar System and Beyond Hearing Charter, December 4, 2013 [4 Pages, 400kb] – The purpose of this hearing is to examine astrobiology research and the search for biosignatures in our Solar System and beyond. The…
Author: John Greenewald
The Space Race was an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could make the furthest advancements into space first. It involved the efforts to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land them on the Moon. Below are declassified and released records regarding the Space Race. The Deadlock of the Space Race, 27 May 1993 [82 Pages, 16.5mb] Five Years of Soviet Space Investigation [29 Pages, 12.23mb] Launch on Demand [48 Pages, 3mb] Proceeding of Meeting on Problems and Techniques Associated with the Decontamination and Sterilization of…
The primary goal of the Stardust mission was to collect samples of a comet and return them to Earth for laboratory analysis. Comets are ancient bodies of frozen ice and dust that formed beyond the orbit of the most distant planet. They were expected to contain materials that the solar system formed from, preserved in ice for billions of years. When the international team of 200 scientists began examination of the returned particles, we found that the particles were indeed ancient building blocks of the solar system but the nature and origin of the particles was quite unexpected. NASA Documents…
This category archives documents relating to advanced propulsion systems and related information on Deep Space travel, along with other reports on Deep Space Communication. Deep Space Communication Research Summary Number 36-1. Volume 1 for the Period 1 December 1959-1 February 1960 [ 10 Pages, 4.1MB ] – As part of the United States Deep Space Research Program, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is establishing a system of space probe radio communication stations to be known as the Deep Space Instrumentation Facility (DSIF). Deep Space Travel Outer Space Propulsion by Nuclear Energy, January/February 1958 [ 239 Pages, 17.5MB ] – The Joint Committee on…
The Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) is the Army’s element to USSTRATCOM’s Theater Event System (TES). TES The ongoing cooperation between the Army and Air Force continues to be essential to the long-term growth of the Army’s space professional cadre. High Frontier provides an integrated, in-theater, 24-hour overhead non-imaging infrared detection capability for processing and disseminating missile early warning, alerting, and cueing information data to combatant commanders and missile defense assets through the use of stereo processing of the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite data. The TES is composed of three ground elements: the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Mission Control…