Space

NASA OIG Investigation: Recovery of Possibly Historical 1969 NASA Data Tapes, December 4, 2015

Background This administrative investigation was initiated upon receipt of information from [[ REDACTED ]] NASA-OIG, who advised [[ REDACTED ]]…

September 21, 2017

Rover POV – NASA’s First Five Years of Curiosity Driving on Mars

Background Five years of images from the front left hazard avoidance camera (Hazcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover were used…

August 9, 2017

Operation Morning Light

Background Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented…

May 8, 2017

Decommissioning plans for the International Space Station (ISS)

Background The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its…

April 8, 2017

Project Orion – Nuclear Propulsion Concept

Background Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of…

December 22, 2016

Space – A Collection of Soviet Papers from the Early 1960s

Background Space - A Collection of Articles [109 Pages, 12.1MB] The following foreign intelligence papers were received from the Defense…

September 28, 2016

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Test in Slow Motion Using NASA’s High Dynamic Range Stereo X (HiDyRS-X) Camera

Revolutionary Camera Recording Propulsion Data Completes Groundbreaking Test While thousands turned out to watch NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) recently…

August 8, 2016

The Pioneer Program – Able Tests

Pioneer Program Background The Pioneer program is a series of United States unmanned space missions that were designed for planetary…

June 9, 2016

JPL Visions of the Future Posters

In February 2016, NASA/JPL released these posters, depicting what future space tourism posters could look like. They are an amazing…

May 13, 2016

Advanced Propulsion Study, February 2004

Advanced Propulsion Study Background This study was tasked with the purpose of conducting a thorough literature and program search to…

April 27, 2016