
The saucer-shaped test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) will undergo a series of events in the skies above…

Balloon + Rocket + Inflatable Flying Saucer + World's Biggest Supersonic Parachute = LDSD

Robert McCall's 2003 "Celebrating One Hundred Years of Powered Flight" mural graces the entrance of NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center's…

John H. Glenn, Jr. - NASA Project Mercury Astronaut. In April of 1959, John Glenn was selected as a member…

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Test technicians work on a mock-up of the James Webb Space Telescope spacecraft bus.

On Mars, we can observe four classes of sandy landforms formed by the wind, or aeolian bedforms: ripples, transverse aeolian…

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This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a close-up of N103B -- all that remains from a supernova…

This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows N103B -- all that remains from a supernova that exploded a…