President Barack Obama to terminate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) "Constellation" program could result in more than $1 billion in shutdown costs for contractors Lockheed Martin Corp. and Alliant Techsystems Inc.Pasztor...
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...
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...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --NASA intends to resume on May 1 the orderly shutdown of the shuttle program, amove directed toward carrying out national space policy while safely flying ninemore missions by the end of next year. Initiated in 2004, thestep-by-step shutdown was put on a temporary ...
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 – ...
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...
Here’s a replay of the first hotfire test of the Space Launch System core stage, which was cut short a little more than a minute into a planned eight-minute firing. The rocket and engines safely shut down. NASA plans a post-test media briefing tonight.https://t.co/B639YAgQecpic.tw...
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
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...