
This week in 1996, STS-78 and its primary payload, the Life and Microgravity Spacelab, launched.

Todd Gough, a Boeing fabrication specialist at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, installs the end cap test fixture…

A crew completes installation and checkout procedures for the liquid oxygen tank weld confidence article, left. The liquid hydrogen and…

Along the Bellingshausen Sea coast of West Antarctica, ice has been retreating inland being lost to the sea. Scientists knew…

This X-ray image shows extended emission around a source known as Swift J1834.9-0846, a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star called a…

Ratana Meekham, a Qualis Corp. engineering technician at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, helps install approximately 5…

NASA engineers say the X-57 Maxwell all-electric airplane, as shown in this artist’s rendering, is expected to validate research that…

A crane lifts the qualification test article of the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) after final manufacturing on a 30-foot…

This artist's concept of NASA's X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane's specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. NASA Aeronautics…

Engineers are constructing qualification structural test articles for the core stage at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.