National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to reach Mars, according to the agency's Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0. Details relating to the cargo launch are included. Particular focus is given to the crew launch, including health ef...
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter unlocks its rotor blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021, the 47th Martian day, or sol, of its mission. They had been held in place since before launch, and the unlocking is one of several milestones that must be met before the helicopter ...
The hang glider's wing, called a delta wing or Rogallo wing, is an outgrowth of NASA engineer Francis Rogallo's research on kites and parachutes in the 1960s. Rogallo had proposed the wing as a method of returning spacecraft to Earth. The delta-wing parachute was lightweight, durabl...
Lightning flashes in the sky behind the Saturn V rocket that will propel Apollo 15 to the moon, July 25, 1971 (Image credit: NASA) NASA's better days can appear long past to the public. The U.S. space agency that once landed a man on the moon now wrestles with questions of ...
Following a delay to its original launch schedule, SpaceX is once again preparing to launch NASA’s Lunar Flashlight satellite, as well as HAKUTO-R Mission 1 in what is the first privately led Japanese mission to attempt a lunar landing. ...
The launch is NASA’s first involving professional astronauts since the Crew-6 flight in February, and its first crewed mission sincethe Ax-2 flight in Maythat took four private citizens to the ISS. What to expect NASA and SpaceX will live stream events leading up to the launch, as well...
If you'd like to watch the launch on YouTube, you can do that right here. Coverage of the launch will also be providedvia the NASA Artemis Twitter page. You canconnect with that page right here. Now if you're not sure exactly what the mission of the Artemis 1 and the Orion spacecr...
How long it takes to get to Mars depends on the planetary position and available technology. Here we explore how long a trip to the Red Planet would take.
The United States is sending astronauts to space for the first time in nine years and viewers will be able to watch the event live.
The NASA Starliner spacecraft is scheduled to launch aboard a ULA Launch Atlas V rocket, along with astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams at approximately 12:25pm ET.