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Students assemble balloon race cars and Alka-Seltzer film canister rockets to demonstrate Newton's third Law of...
Stennis Space Center visited three Mississippi communities Sept. 11-13, offering interactive and space-related...
NASA's Administrator, Charles Bolden watches as some students conduct an experiment with a balloon at NASA's Earth...
NASA's Administrator, Charles Bolden watches as some students conduct an experiment with a balloon at NASA's Earth...
A boilerplate CST-100 Starliner is lifted skyward by a balloon for a drop test of the Starliner's parachute system....
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The high-altitude balloon that carried an instrument-laden capsule bursts 105,000 feet above...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the Cape Canaveral weather station in Florida, a member of the weather team prepares...
The BARREL team inflates their second balloon just before its launch on Aug. 13, 2015, from Kiruna, Sweden. The day...
Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense...
A Boeing CST-100 Starliner test article prepares to mate with a high altitude balloon ahead of its final parachute...
From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to study wet winter...
This montage is an artist's conception of progressive views of the Comet Kohoutek based on sketches and a...
Inflation Tests of the Echo 1 Satellite in Weeksville, N.C. 1958-L-03603 Image Langley engineers Edwin Kilgore...
A reused drogue parachute deploys from Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner test article during the final balloon drop...
Super Guppy, bigger sister of the aptly named Pregnant Guppy, was the only airplane in the world capable of carrying...
Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense...
On Thursday, September 14th, 2023, In response to a recommendation by an independent study team for NASA to play a...
Inflation Tests of the Echo 1 Satellite in Weeksville, N.C. 1958-L-03603 Image Langley engineers Edwin Kilgore...
Members of NASA’s Exploration Ground System’s Landing and Recovery team and partners from the Department of Defense...
Katie Craig, daughter of former Stennis Space Center Deputy Director Mark Craig, launches a 'balloon rocket' with...
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner's three main parachutes slow the test article to a safe and soft landing during the final...
From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to study wet winter...
S93-25647 (6 Jan 1993) --- Part of the educational activities onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for STS-54 will...
The first of three Prandtl-M prototype aircraft was air launched Aug. 16, 2019, from an Aerostat blimp at NASA’s...