May 6, 2014
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...
Apr 21, 2014
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...
Mar 20, 2014
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...
Mar 19, 2014
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....
Mar 18, 2014
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...
Feb 27, 2014
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...