Articles about NASA – Page 18 of 24

NASA extends New Horizons mission to Kuiper Belt, tells Dawn to stay at Ceres

Almost a year after New Horizons’ unprecedented flyby of Pluto, NASA has given the official go-ahead for the probe to… Read More

Juno meets Jupiter: NASA’s giant mission to the giant planet hits its climax on video

Everything about NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter is big: the destination (giant planet, duh!), the cost ($1.1 billion), the travel… Read More

It’s a blast! NASA’s booster for heavy-lift SLS rocket gets final pre-launch test firing

The solid-rocket booster that’s destined to help send future NASA missions into deep space has blasted through its last full-scale… Read More

NASA considers turning Curiosity rover into a scout for water on Mars mountain

NASA says one of the Curiosity rover’s future tasks could be to check out sites on Mars that may harbor trickles… Read More

NASA picks Firmamentum to build a 3-D printer/recycler for use in space

Firmamentum, a division of Tethers Unlimited Inc. in Bothell, Wash., says it has won $750,000 in NASA funding to build… Read More

Former NASA space station manager makes plans for commercial outpost

Former space station manager Mike Suffredini says he’s working on a plan to send up a commercial space module that could… Read More

What a view! Space station trio sails home through picture-perfect clouds

Three spacefliers from the International Space Station made a photogenic return to Earth today, touching down in the steppes of… Read More

NASA gets first official X-plane in a decade: Electric craft named X-57 Maxwell

NASA says it has received its first X-plane designation in a decade, for a research aircraft that has 14 electric… Read More

Jeff Bezos says a big government ‘prize’ could generate more public interest in space exploration

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos thinks the government could offer “a very large prize” as an incentive to parties involved in the modern… Read More

Astronauts get their first look inside BEAM, the first expandable space habitat

Nine days after the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module was blown up to its full volume, astronauts entered the bedroom-sized BEAM… Read More

The universe is expanding 5-9% faster than astronomers expected, Hubble team finds

New research from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team suggests that the universe is expanding significantly faster than astronomers originally thought.… Read More

After snags, BEAM space module expands to its full volume – like a bag of popcorn

It took almost eight hours, but NASA accomplished the first expansion of a pop-up module at the International Space Station… Read More

Fabric too stiff? NASA gets set for second try to expand BEAM space module

Update: NASA will make its second attempt to inflate the Bigelow Expandable Space Module starting at around 6 a.m. PT… Read More

NASA uses Microsoft’s HoloLens and ProtoSpace to build its next Mars rover in augmented reality

We’ve already seen how Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed-reality headset is helping folks fight off aliens on the International Space Station and… Read More

NASA’s chief agrees with author of ‘The Martian’: The first Mars crews will steer robots from orbit

The first humans to reach Mars almost certainly won’t go down to the surface, but will manage fleets of rovers… Read More

Terry Virts on International Space Station for 'A Beautiful Planet'

‘A Beautiful Planet’: Astronauts and space moviemakers reflect on film’s final frontier

“A Beautiful Planet” is a 3-D visual feast for the eyes, but the astronauts who filmed the IMAX space extravaganza made… Read More

More frontiers lie ahead as International Space Station makes its 100,000th orbit

The International Space Station registered its 100,000th orbit around the planet today, providing NASA with a news hook for looking at what… Read More

MSNW’s magnetoshell aerobraking system gets in on NASA’s way-out research fund

A system that would use magnetic fields to ease a spacecraft into orbit after an interplanetary journey has won a… Read More

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule splashes down, returning Scott Kelly’s samples

A month after delivering an expandable prototype habitat and other goodies to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule splashed down… Read More

1,284 new worlds! Kepler mission doubles its tally of planets in one fell swoop

The scientists behind NASA’s Kepler mission are using statistics to put their campaign to identify new planets into overdrive: New software… Read More

View of ultracool dwarf star with planets

NASA keeps its eye on a trio of potentially habitable planets just 40 light-years away

Three potentially habitable and definitely weird planets have been detected orbiting an ultracool dwarf star that’s 40 light-years away from… Read More

Faster, quieter, greener: Will NASA’s campaign for X-planes pick up speed?

NASA is laying out a vision of quieter supersonic jets and environmentally friendly X-planes as part of its agenda for aeronautics, the… Read More

Job One for Aerojet’s future ion drive: Go out and get a piece of an asteroid

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s next-generation ion thrusters could well make their debut in space during NASA’s robotic mission to grab a piece of an asteroid and bring… Read More

An engine for Mars: Aerojet wins $67M NASA contract for solar electric propulsion

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s operation in Redmond, Wash., has won a $67 million contract from NASA to design and develop an advanced… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Fishackathon Seattle, VR meets NASA, Gender Differences in STEM

Celebrate Earth Day with two industries that have shaped Seattle: fishing and technology. The third annual Fishackathon is hosted by… Read More

Moon Village vs. Journey to Mars: Which space vision will the next president pick?

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Over the past eight years, the focus of NASA’s space vision has shifted from the moon,… Read More

Bigelow Aerospace and ULA plan to launch supersized space station module in 2020

DENVER – Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance have announced a plan to launch Bigelow’s B330 expandable space module aboard an… Read More

President Obama leads celebration on Twitter for SpaceX’s rocket landing at sea

SpaceX’s first-ever at-sea rocket landing was cause for a Twitter celebration that drew in President Barack Obama as well as other… Read More

SpaceX lands Falcon rocket at sea after launching a pop-up room to space station

SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule today with an expandable module for the International Space Station, and then successfully landed the… Read More

SpaceX gets ready to launch expandable module for NASA to test on space station

For the first time, SpaceX is due to launch an entire room to the International Space Station – a room that… Read More