construction of the International Space Station in the 1990s, and the decision in the early 2000s to shut it down.As a rookie reporter visiting the Kennedy Space Center hangar to view the Challenger wreckage, D
Bush announced that the space shuttle program would be shut down once the International Space Station was completed in 2010 (in fact, it took another year). In preparation NASA invited companies to help supply the station. By this point NASA's HL-20 was mostly forgotten and gathering dust ...
NASA test-fired its Space Launch System (SLS) lunar rocket engines on Saturday but they shut down earlier than planned, the space agency said.The "hot-fire" test at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi was supposed to last a little over eight minutes – the time the engines would burn...
NASA offices associated with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiativeswere shut downlast month in accordance with another executive order penned by the Trump administration. All language related to these programs was scrubbed from public-facing websites to comply with the orde...
The ongoing partial government shutdown has grounded a NASA aircraft used for astronomical observations amid reviews about how to operate that program in the future.
For more than 40 years, NASA astronauts have performed spacewalks outside the space station for maintenance and upgrades while wearing the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit design that debuted during the Space Shuttle Program in the 1980s. While the spacesuit has far exceeded its planned...
Second, a design flaw has been uncovered during new testing in Orion's ability to open and shut valves connected to the life support system – described by Amit Kshatriya, deputy associate administrator for the Moon to Mars program – ...
Unlike an actual launch, where the sound quickly fades away as the rocket climbs away toward space, the RS-25 test firing went on for a full eight minutes and 55 seconds -- the time needed for the new SLS rocket to reach orbit -- before the engine finally shut down, putting on a me...
The government started to shut down on Tuesday morning after Congress embarrassingly failed to come to an agreement on the budget. It's bad news. While
Known asengine cut-off (ECO) sensors, the gauges measure liquid hydrogen levels insideDiscovery's external tank. Four similar sensors inside perform the same functioninside Discovery's liquid oxygen feed line. All eight of the sensors aredesigned to shut down Discovery's three main engines before...