This event special charts the extraordinary inside story of NASA engineers as they race to build and launch the world’s biggest rocket – Artemis I The Artemis missions will transport humans – including the first woman – to the moon, then launch our amazing journey to Mars, and beyond. As...
Being NASA, of course, there's also plenty of applications for rocket science. Biswas said engineers wanting a complete digital model of a launch could find ample uses for an exaflop supercomputer. Today, he said, it is possible to model the first few seconds of a Shuttle launch, but to ...
David H. Freedman
The NOAA’s weather satellite being sealed inside the rocket fairing ahead of launch.NASA New images from NASA show the rarely seen sight of a satellite being sealed inside the rocket fairing ahead of next month’s launch. The fairing is a vital part of the rocket design, making the launch...
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The mission began on December 7, 1972 when, at 33 minutes past midnight, the engines of a Saturn V rocket erupted and bathed Florida’s Cape Canaveral in an orange glow. As night turned to day, the fireball blinded spectators who came to see Apollo 17 roar skyward. Within minutes, the...
Even though JPL is currently beholden to its parent organization's budgets and approvals, it is actually the reason NASA exists. In the forties, the U.S. Army requisitioned the ragtag band of space cowboys to study Germany's V-2 rocket program and develop jet-assisted takeoff for Army ...
Something Northrop Grumman is proud of, is the mobile launch pad that the shuttle lifted off from is now theirs. Back inside the VAB, the space shuttle called this bay home too. So in short, the Omega rocket is inheriting some legacy infrastructure. ...
From the back of Discovery's flight deck, windows look out over the shuttle's payload bay. What a view, and we're not even in space. Get the Space.com Newsletter Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Contact me with news and offers fr...
YouTuber Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer, shows "Nightline's" Ashan Singh the rocket-powered golf clubs he'd made for a video.ABC News “If I make a Jell-O pool and I’m like, ‘I ain’t jumping in it,’ that’s one thing,” he added. “But when you ...