JWST Mission Confident of March 2021 Launch; Tony Gets a Call From NASA
This year marks the ninth year that I started posting this news series. It all started with the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society in 2011 and continues to this day. In this episode, at a town hall held on the first day of AAS meeting, NASA program managers and scientists express confidence that the James Webb Space Telescope will launch as currently scheduled in March 2021. Also, I got more feedback from my JWST reporting, this time from the Public Affairs Office at NASA.
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Today’s advances in materials, testing capabilities, and reactor development are providing impetus for NASA to appraise Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) as an attractive 21st century option to propel human exploration missions to Mars and other deep space destinations.
NASA along with private companies are working on the technology that could cut mission time to Mars in half, leaving astronauts less exposed to the hazards of space including the impact on the human body of exposure to microgravity. First generation NTP systems could cut total mission duration in half, while still leaving adequate time for Mars surface exploration.
With NTP, missions to Mars could be achieved at times when Earth and the Red Planet are in less favorable orbital positions relative to each other.
Please Join Tony Darnell as he talks with Dr. Jonathan Witter (Chief NTP Engineer BWX Technologies), Michael Houts (Marshall Space Flight Center), and John Horack (Ohio State University) as we discuss the exciting development of nuclear technologies to propel us to the solar system!
Early Concept video on Nuclear Thermal Propulsion from 1960's:
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NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has often observed that humans are closer to their first mission to Mars than ever before in history. In the first in a series of Hangout discussions, we will hear from scientific and technical experts who have been developing priority capabilities, innovative scenarios, and the objectives for human exploration of Mars within about two decades.
Join Tony Darnell, Harley Thronson and Alberto Conti as they discuss with Hoppy Price (JPL) and Joseph Cassady (Aerojet Rocketdyne) current architectures for initial human missions to Mars that are both affordable and sustainable.
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