For the first time, engineers stacked and unfurled a full-sized test unit of the Sunshield and it worked perfectly.
The HL-10 was one of five aircraft built in the Lifting Body Research Program. It was a NASA design and…
The completed launch abort system for Orion's first launch in December was rotated into a vertical position on July 25,…
Frank Batteas is a research test pilot in the Flight Crew Branch of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA.
Jim Smolka is a research test pilot and director of the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center,…
NASA engineers recently built and tested a large, inflatable solar array with the potential to provide affordable, lightweight power for…
Juno’s primary goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Juno will go about this by determining the…
Lucy will be the first space mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, which may me remnants of the primordial material…
This 2014 Chandra image of Tycho supernova remnant reveals the dynamics of the explosion in exquisite detail.
Dr. Wernher von Braun, the first center director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center is carried aloft on the shoulders…