NASA

NASA Weathers Hurricane; May Impact Hubble Mission

[/caption] NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston weathered Hurricane Ike fairly well, but damage to some buildings, including the roof…

16 years ago

US Astronauts May Have to Leave Space Station in 2012

[/caption] Because of stalled legislation that is needed to allow NASA to pay the Russian Space Agency to ferry US…

16 years ago

NASA Reaches Out to Design Students to Confront Lunar Dust Problem

[/caption] Last year, students from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) were set one of the best coursework projects I've…

16 years ago

NASA is Making Preliminary Plans to Extend Shuttle Launches Beyond 2010

[/caption] According to an internal email, NASA staff have been instructed to initiate a study into extending the operational lifetime…

16 years ago

Still Mythbusting

[/caption] It seems fitting that today's NASA "Image of the Day" is this wonderful image of the lunar lander from…

16 years ago

NASA Security Badges are a Health and Safety Risk

[/caption] Of all the things that could possibly go wrong for the US space agency, you wouldn't expect the security…

16 years ago

Videos of NASA/ATK Rocket Failure

NASA launch officials were forced to hit the "destruct" button on an experimental rocket that launched early Friday morning. The…

16 years ago

Ares V Rocket Could Crush Kennedy’s Crawlerway: No Funding to Upgrade

[/caption] There's a big problem with Kennedy Space Center playing host to the Constellation Program: The heavy-lift rocket, Ares V,…

16 years ago

NASA Releases Images and Video of Orion Failed Parachute Test

[/caption] As previously reported on the Universe Today, recent parachute test-drops for the Constellation Project have brought mixed results. The…

16 years ago

NASA to Install “Shock Absorbers” to Mitigate Thrust Oscillation

[/caption] NASA will add a system engineers equated to shock absorbers to Ares 1 rockets to reduce significant vibrations that…

16 years ago