NASA engineers have completed structural qualification tests on the Space Launch System‘s core stage engine section at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The rocket’s four RS-25 engines and two solid rocket booster attachments will
MoreNASA plans to showcase an Orion stage adapter technology at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama before the space agency transfers the flight hardware to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The agency said Saturday it will
MorePresident Donald Trump intends to nominate James Reilly, a former NASA astronaut and current technical adviser at the U.S. Air Force‘s National Security Space Institute, as director of the U.S. Geological Survey. Reilly spent 13 years
MoreNASA and the U.S. Navy have conducted another recovery test of an Orion test vehicle aboard the USS Anchorage amphibious transport dock. The Navy said Thursday the Underway Recovery Test-6 is meant to ensure
MoreNASA has released the 2018 edition of an annual publication that features 49 everyday-life technology applications with involvement from the space agency’s research and development contributions. The Spinoff publication for this year
MoreNASA has said the 2019 budget request slated for release as soon as February will include details on how the space agency will implement a space policy directive involving a potential human return
MoreNASA has performed tests at the Department of Energy‘s Nevada National Security Site for a compact nuclear power system built to support long missions conducted on Mars, Reuters reported Friday. The testing began November
MoreDeputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will take over space adviser responsibilities previously assigned to the secretary of the U.S. Air Force on an interim basis, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The report said he
MoreThe U.S. Navy deployed a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock Wednesday to support a NASA spacecraft recovery test off the coast of Southern California. USS Anchorage (LPD 23) departed from San Diego Naval Base
MoreNASA has publicly released the first set of lunar data from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III mission launched on the International Space Station last year. The space agency said Friday its Atmospheric Science Data
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