Astronauts
NASA Completes Awesome Test Firing of World’s Most Powerful Booster for Human Mission to Mars – Gallery
The world’s most powerful booster that will one day propel NASA astronauts on exciting missions of exploration to deep space…
Mars Stink To Be Duplicated For Earthbound Humans
The smell of Mars could be recreated here on Earth. Might it help prepare colonists for their stay on Mars?
Work Efficiency Declines 75% On ISS As Facebook Arrives On Station
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will conduct a live chat with ISS astronauts today, and it will be streamed at NASA's…
Orbital ATK Proposes Man-Tended Lunar-Orbit Outpost by 2020 for Link Up with NASA’s Orion
Orbital ATK has unveiled a practical new proposal to build a near term man-tended outpost in lunar orbit that could…
NASA’s Orion EM-1 Crew Module Passes Critical Pressure Tests
The next Orion crew module in line to launch to space on NASA’s Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1) has passed a…
1st Boeing Starliner Hull Assembled as 1st Crew Flight Delays to 2018
As completion nears for the prototype of Boeing’s first Starliner astronaut taxi, the firm announced a slip into 2018 for…
SpaceX Taps Superhero Designer For Its Spacesuits
SpaceX has hired super-hero movie costume designer Jose Fernandez to design space suits for its astronauts.
NASA Selects Aerojet Rocketdyne to Develop Solar Electric Propulsion for Deep Space Missions
NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to design and develop an advanced solar electric propulsion (SEP) system that will serve as…
NASA Welds First Flight Section of SLS Core Stage for 2018 Maiden Launch
One weld at a time, the flight hardware for NASA's mammoth new Space Launch System (SLS) booster has at last…
Bigelow and ULA Partner to Launch Commercial Space Habitat in 2020
Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced they are joining forces to develop and launch the world’s first commercial…