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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Technicians check the systems on NASA's Project Morpheus prototype lander in preparation for...
A 3670-horsepower Armstrong-Siddeley Python turboprop being prepared for tests in the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's Project Morpheus prototype lander soars high during a free flight test at the north...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Project Morpheus prototype lander lifts off in the automated landing and hazard avoidance...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Project Morpheus prototype lander soars high and moves forward after launching on its...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Project Morpheus prototype lander soars high after launching on its sixth free flight...
LOUISVILLE, Colo. – An Erickson Air-Crane helicopter lifts Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems’ Dream Chaser...
You're watching NASA Direct. Now on the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report: Passing the test_ Space Shuttle Discovery...
Engineer Erin Wilson adds aluminum tape to electrical cables to protect them from the cold during environmental...
The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) was designed by the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to test the...
A Rolls Royce Avon RA-14 engine was tested in the Altitude Wind Tunnel at the National Advisory Committee for...
A vapor cloud is seen after launch of a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket, launched at 7:07 p.m., Wednesday...
Two full-scale development model rovers that are part of NASA's CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic...
The NISAR satellite, partially covered in gold-hued thermal blanketing, enters the thermal vacuum chamber at the...
NASA engineer Acey Herrera recently checked out copper test wires inside the thermal shield of the Mid-Infrared...
This fleet of military aircraft was used in the 1940s for research at the National Advisory Committee for...
NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are the crewmembers of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight...
More than two years after the Columbia accident, NASA plans to return the Space Shuttle to flight this month. With...
NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are the crewmembers of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Members of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s Return to Flight STS-114 crew are conducting a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Members of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s Return to Flight STS-114 crew are conducting a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Members of the Space Shuttle Discovery’s Return to Flight STS-114 crew are conducting a...
The SpaceX Demo-2 test flight for NASA's Commercial Crew Program was the first to deliver astronauts to the...
Engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC) Interstellar Propulsion Research department are proposing...