The space shuttle Discovery is poised for liftoff on the STS-128 mission from Pad 39a at the Kennedy Space Center…
The Lunar Electric Rover (now Space Exploration Vehicle or SEV) is being tested at NASA Johnson Space Center's planetary analog…
This image of the Cat's Eye Nebula was made by combining data from two of NASA's Great Observatories-Chandra and the…
Technicians carefully position an Orion flight test crew module to be airlifted from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to the…
Today, Aug. 18, 2009, marks the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's 2,000th sol, or Martian day, on the Red Planet. This…
A successful NASA flight test has shown that a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to…
A successful NASA flight test on Monday, Aug. 17, demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable…
This 1963 model depicts an early Apollo lunar lander concept, called a "bug." Engineers designed several possible vehicle shapes for…
Standing tall at its fully assembled height of 327 feet, the Ares I-X is one of the largest rockets ever…
Cepheus B, a molecular cloud located in our Milky Galaxy about 2,400 light years from the Earth, provides an excellent…
