In October 2023, a trio of sounding rockets traveled more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) into the ionosphere before returning safely back to theEarth's surface. Now, they're getting ready for their second flight. NASA's Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission — named fo...
Scientists at NASA will be sending rockets into the path of Monday's total eclipse in an effort to help unravel the mysteries of the solar system. NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen joined CBS News to discuss some of the scientific aspects of the eclipse.
Rockets were previously used to study the effects from October’s annular solar eclipse. According to the researchers, the use of rockets can be carefully planned out to be in the path instead of relying on satellites, which may not be at the right place at the right time. The rockets won...
Named theMary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Buildingin Washington. Jackson was the first African American female engineer at NASA, whose work was critical to sending the first Americans to space. She went on to lead programs influencing the hiring and promotion of women in NA...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe— a craft flying much closer to the sun than any previous mission — witnessed massive "vortex-like structures" in our star's outer atmosphere, called the corona. You can see the unprecedented view below, taken by the probe's WISPR camera (short for Wide-field ...
The first successful crewed launch during Apollo 7 marked the next milestone in the program’s history. Though astronauts remained in Earth orbit for its duration, the mission validated the safety of sending people to space using the Saturn V rocket. ...
Spacecraft heading to other objects in our solar system need to be as clean as possible, meaning that NASA has to be sure that the millions of microbes living on basically everything on this planet aren't on the hardware we're sending out to other places. Mashable Light Speed Want mor...
The entire craft includes a crew and service module, a spacecraft adaptor to connect the module to the powerful rockets beneath, and a new launch-abort system. The June 28, 2016 booster engine test for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was a success! The second and final qualificat...
The engineers' role in Nazi atrocities must be remembered, but regarding the space program, they played a crucial role in developing early rockets. That development culminated with the surprise launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik in 1957, the first-ever artificially made human satellite. NASA ...
Collins called for better leadership in spaceflight and policy, saying that NASA has lost its number one position in exploration since John F. Kennedy tasked the space agency with sending people to the moon. Although Collins praised NASA's recent robotic missions that have changed the way we see...