Articles about NASA – Page 11 of 24

NASA watchdogs blame SLS rocket snags on Boeing missteps and poor oversight

NASA’s Space Launch System, the rocket that’s being designed to send astronauts to the moon and Mars, seems likely to… Read More

Hubble Space Telescope goes into safe mode due to failed gyro; Plan B pending

The 28-year-old Hubble Space Telescope is temporarily out of service, due to the failure of one of its gyroscopic pointing… Read More

Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019

NASA says we’ll have to wait until 2019 to see the first orbital tests of the space taxis that are… Read More

NanoRacks names its space outpost team, including Stratolaunch and Olis Robotics

It takes a village to raise an space outpost, and NanoRacks’ array of villagers includes Stratolaunch as well as Olis… Read More

Are we alone? NASA turns to the search for technosignatures beyond Earth

It’s been a quarter-century since Congress cut off NASA funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, but now… Read More

Final Delta 2 rocket launch puts NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite in orbit to monitor ice

NASA kicked off its ICESat-2 mission to monitor our planet’s ice sheets from space using a laser-scanning satellite this morning,… Read More

NASA and Russian officials knock down a conspiracy theory on space station leak

NASA and Russia’s space agency issued a joint statement today aimed at quashing viral claims that someone on the International… Read More

Systima wins a contract to supply hatch mechanisms for NASA’s Orion spaceship

Systima Technologies says it’s been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems to provide pyrotechnically actuated hatch mechanisms for… Read More

Commercial branding on spacecraft? Five key points in NASA’s evolving space vision

Why can’t commercials be filmed on the International Space Station? How about astronaut endorsements of energy drinks or tennis shoes?… Read More

Blue Origin scores big in NASA’s latest batch of flight opportunities for space tech

NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 15 promising space technologies for testing on suborbital flights, and almost half of them… Read More

Don’t panic: Space station crew works to patch up tiny air leak in docked Soyuz craft

The International Space Station’s flight controllers detected a minute pressure leak overnight, but a temporary fix was made with epoxy… Read More

Godspeed, Robb Kulin: For first time since Apollo, astronaut candidate leaves training

News Brief: NASA says Alaskan astronaut candidate Robb Kulin is leaving his training program at the end of this month,… Read More

VP Mike Pence revs up NASA schedule for putting astronauts on station in lunar orbit

During a pep talk to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas, Vice President Mike Pence today highlighted what he saw… Read More

Fresh findings about water ice at moon’s poles boost prospects for lunar settlement

Newly published research lays out a map that traces water ice deposits at the poles of the moon — and points… Read More

Engine test for NASA’s heavy-lift SLS rocket cuts off early, but achieves goals

News Brief: NASA put a developmental model of the RS-25 engine for its heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket through a… Read More

Fastest, closest, hottest: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasts off to ‘touch the sun’

NASA today sent a super-shielded spacecraft known as the Parker Solar Probe on a mission that will take it closer… Read More

Ships set sail from Seattle on a NASA mission to trace sea creatures’ carbon trail

After seven years of preparation, two research vessels are heading out of Seattle to begin a 40-day voyage to track… Read More

NASA picks 13 companies to envision the future of orbital human spaceflight

Thirteen companies, including Boeing and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be doing studies for NASA on… Read More

Blue Origin’s lunar lander program wins a share of NASA’s ‘tipping-point’ tech awards

NASA is awarding $44 million to six commercial partners to support “tipping-point” technologies that range from lunar landing capabilities to… Read More

‘Smallsats are big’: NASA official details initiatives to boost tiny science satellites

LOGAN, Utah — NASA is already deep into small-satellite science, but today the space agency’s associate administrator for science signaled that… Read More

SpaceX Dragon cargo craft splashes down, delivering space algae and cell samples

News Brief: The International Space Station’s crew sent a Dragon back to Earth today, filled with more than 3,800 pounds… Read More

NASA names nine astronauts for SpaceX and Boeing flights to space station

NASA unveiled the first nine astronauts for its commercial crew missions to the International Space Station today, including rookies as… Read More

NASA confirms new timetable for space taxi flights; SpaceX to fly crew next April

NASA today laid out a newly stretched-out schedule for flying astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil, with SpaceX’s… Read More

HyperSciences wins support for ram accelerator from NASA, Shell — and from crowdfunding

Things are looking up, and looking down, for HyperSciences Inc. Either way, that’s good news for the four-year-old hypersonic startup… Read More

Engine test anomaly deals setback to Boeing’s plans for Starliner space taxi

Boeing confirms that it experienced an anomaly last month during tests of the engines that would be used on its… Read More

Enjoy July’s gems from Juno at Jupiter

NASA’s Juno orbiter made another close pass of Jupiter this week, and that means there’s another crop of stunning pictures… Read More

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule arrives in Florida to get set for uncrewed test flight

After months of testing, a SpaceX Dragon capsule that’s designed to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station… Read More

Fifty years after Apollo, the Peanuts gang signs up again to give NASA a boost

Eighteen years after their creator died, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang are rising again to… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft unveils Surface Go, Demi Lovato to headline Amazon concert, new record for same-day delivery in space

Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils $399 ‘Surface Go’ with 10-inch display and USB-C port to take on lower-cost iPads and… Read More

After review, NASA resets Webb Telescope launch for 2021 with $9.66B price tag

NASA says the launch of its flagship James Webb Space Telescope is being rescheduled for no earlier than 2021, with… Read More