Date Published: May 7, 2014 Source: Engadget Now that we’re this close to sending humans to Mars, NASA thought it best to start preparing for one of its biggest goals: deep space exploration. Three NASA Ames Research Center studies that aim to explore the...
Date Published: May 6, 2014 Source: NASA NASA is contracting for the construction of the test stands through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has awarded a $45.3 million contract to Brasfield & Gorrie of Birmingham, Alabama. SLS will be the most powerful...
From left, Wayne Arrington, a Boeing Company technician, and Steve Presti, a mechanical technician at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., install Developmental Flight Instrumentation Data Acquisition Units in Marshall’s Systems Integration and...
Can a rocket maneuver like an airplane? And can an airplane act as a surrogate for a maneuvering rocket? NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F/A-18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for...
A comparison of images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in November 2010 and May 2013 reveal the formation of a new gully channel on a crater-wall slope in the southern highlands of Mars....
NASA hopes to launch an Orion crew capsule into space for the first time before the end of this year — two or three months later than previously planned. Once targeted for September or October, the mission called Exploration Flight Test-1, or EFT-1, is now shooting...
The parachute system designed for NASA’s Orion spacecraft passed another hurdle on Feb. 26, in a test that put extra stress on its drogue parachutes and simulated a failure of one of its three main parachutes. Engineers dropped a dart-shaped test vehicle that...
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