Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. sits in his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, ready for launch. Just 23 days earlier, Soviet…
These side-by-side images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the feature named Tortola Facula on Saturn's moon Titan. The left…
The four-member crew is at Kenn
In this image from 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its rock abrasion tool on a rock informally named…
Viewed from space, the most striking feature of our planet is the water. In both liquid and frozen form, it…
Researchers checked out emissions detection equipment set up behind NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory during ground tests of alternative biofuels derived…
This aircraft design faces the future head-on.
Designed for efficiency, the D8 has a very wide fuselage to provide extra lift and low-swept wings to reduce drag…
Professor Mark Drela (center), chief engineer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology aircraft design team, helps undergraduate students Nina Siu…
One of the advanced design concepts – the D8 or "double bubble" – is now a subscale model being tested…
