James Smith and Gary Cosentino prepare the X-56A for flight. Researchers are using the aircraft to investigate if highly-flexible, lightweight…
The X-56A is scheduled for November flights to further investigate how highly-flexible, lightweight wings function.
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei is pictured attached to the outside of the space station during a spacewalk to lubricate the…
This week in 1995, the space shuttle Columbia and STS-73 launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying USML-2, the U.S.…
Hidden beneath Chamber A at the Johnson Space Center is an area engineers used to test critical contamination control technology…
His Excellency the Honorable Joe Hockey, Australia’s ambassador to the United States of America, left, and acting NASA Administrator Robert…
Originally created for AFRC’s “blue room,” this NACA/NASA mural is a composite of two panel pieces that interlock, developed by…
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba photographed Puerto Rico from the cupola of the International Space Station on Oct. 12, 2017. Sharing…
The Suomi NPP satellite's instrument known as VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) detected hundreds and hundreds of fires burning…
This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided.
