Williams and his five crewmates will have to wait a week before venturing inside. NASA wants to make certain the chamber is airtight before opening the door. It was NASA's second shot at inflating the Bigelow E
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stated, May 14, 2019, that the budget request of $1.6 billion for NASA’s Mission to the Moon was not enough to get back to the moon in 2024. NASA wants an extra $1.6 billion in fiscal 2020 to support its new timeline...
This is a reflection of Trump administration priorities, which value "returning to the moon before China and putting a man on Mars," according to the document. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction...
Researchers discovered that the "slow springback foam," as it was called initially, not only made passengers safer, it also made sitting for hours on long flights more comfortable because it allowed for a more even distribution of body weight. In 1967, Yost formed his own company, Dynamic Sys...
Trump administration proposes slashing NASA budget by 24% By Mike Wall published May 3, 2025 The White House's proposed 2026 budget cuts $6 billion in NASA funding and cancels Mars sample return and the Gateway moon-orbiting space station, among other projects. Space Exploration NASA just ...
Perhaps of all the X-planes NASA has been associated with, none was more cutting edge and became more famous – rivaling even the X-1 – than the X-15 rocket plane. “The X-1 was certainly the most historic for being the first and for what it did for supersonic flight. But the X...
This time it's the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA today confirmed a data breach that may have compromised personal information of some of its current and former employees after at least one of the agency's servers was hacked. In an internal memo sent ...
FLARE was developed as an alternative to NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) reference architecture from the Design Analysis Cycle (DAC) #2 [1]. Their goal was to develop an architecture delivering two crew to the lunar surface by 2024 using only a commercial human lander, the SLS Block 1,...
Larson, a veteran of both the Obama administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and SpaceX, said the confirmation hearing this week will be the true test of where Bridenstine stands. “For an Obama administration official, I am fairly bullish on his appointment, mainly because (a...
During the 1960 presidential campaign, President Kennedy exploited a growing public concern about the space race that was fueled by an insistence that there was a “missile gap,” an illusion that his party put forth at the expense of the Eisenhower Administration. This feeling of technological in...