The U.S. space agency said it is ready to conduct the first flight test of an escape system designed for the Constellation Program’s Orion crew capsule.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it has completed production of hardware for use in the test of the astronaut escape system. The hardware — a structure that simulates the Orion crew module — was designed and fabricated at …
Returning humans to the moon by 2020 may seem like a distant goal, but NASA’s Constellation Program already has scheduled the first test flight toward that goal to take place in less than 12 months.
A mock-up of the Orion crew vehicle is headed for the New Mexico desert to be used in the first in a series of tests of the ability of Orion’s launch-abort system.
NASA officials are trying to determine whether something hit the shuttle during liftoff
March 11 (Bloomberg) — NASA’s Endeavour lifted off before dawn today for the International Space Station, beginning an almost 16-day mission that will be the longest by any shuttle to the outpost.
What pushes NASA chief Mike Griffin’s buttons? Poor grammar, he admitted on Monday at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas.In a short speech to hundreds of scientists at the meeting, Griffin described his fondness for the mission…
March 11 (Bloomberg) — NASA’s shuttle astronauts woke from a weightless sleep today and began their first full day in orbit, preparing for tasks that include scanning the shuttle Endeavour for any damage suffered during launch.
Around 250 miles above our heads, people are living and working on board the International Space Station. It is by far the largest structure ever built in space (at least, the part of space we know about) – 250 tons of research modules, life-support systems, solar panels and much, much more.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from a seaside Florida launch pad on Tuesday to deliver part of a long-awaited Japanese space laboratory and a Canadian-built robotic system to the International Space Station.
Purdue University engineers are conducting experiments using a new hydrogen facility to help NASA create designs to improve the cooling efficiency and performance of the J-2X rocket engine, critical for future missions to Mars and the moon.
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