While on leave in January 1986, NASA administrator James Beggs turned on the television and spotted icicles on Challenger’s launch tower. A day later, seven astronauts lost their lives. The Challenger space shuttle disaster of Jan. 26, 1986. (Image credit: Nasa)
The agency wants the technology for use in crewed missions to Mars. Artist concept of Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could be used for
President Joe Biden landed aboard Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield Thursday, near NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, before departing to tour recent storm damage in the state. Biden was greeted by Ames’ Associate Center Director
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson holds a model of an aircraft with a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing during a news conference on NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington, DC.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, front left, and Japan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hayashi Yoshimasa, front right, shake hands after signing an agreement that builds on a long history of collaboration in space exploration between the U.S. and Japan,
“We’re not calling it a rescue Soyuz,” NASA says. Russia will launch an uncrewed Soyuz capsule to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, seen here spewing coolant into space after a likely micrometeoroid strike on Dec. 14, 2022. (Image credit: NASA
Perseverance starts its extended mission on Saturday (Jan. 7). NASA’s Perseverance rover took this selfie on Mars on Sept. 20, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is wrapping up its prime mission on the Red Planet. The car-sized Perseverance rover landed
Orion made it to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 30. NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion capsule arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 30, 2022 after a nine-day trek from San Diego. (Image credit: NASA’s Kennedy Space Center via
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is recovering its memory after a download disruption following its December flyby of Jupiter. NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its 47th flyby of Jupiter in December. It was mind-blowing as in, the probe lost its memory. (Image credit: NASA)
The supersonic X-59 plane is designed to fly Mach 1.4 with quieter booms, NASA says. A General Electric Aviation F414-GE-100 engine was installed on NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft, at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. (Image credit: NASA/Carla