Space Shuttle
NASA Test Fires SLS Flight Engine Destined to Launch Astronauts Back to the Moon
NASA engineers have successfully test fired the first flight engine destined to power the agency’s mammoth new SLS rocket that…
Incredible Hand-Drawn Animations Explain How Spacecraft Work
Freelance animator and storyboard artist Stanley VonMedvey has started using his remarkable talents to create short videos to explain a…
Weekly Space Hangout – Jan. 29, 2016: Largest Solar System, Future Missions, and Remembering Our Lost Astronauts
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Carolyn Collins Petersen (thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter ) Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )…
Challenges We’re Overcoming Following the Challenger Accident
It was thirty years ago, January 28, 1986, that space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight, killing seven…
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NASA Awards Contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne to Restart RS-25 Engine Production for SLS Mars Rocket
NASA took another big step on the path to propel our astronauts back to deep space and ultimately on to…
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NASA vs. Cigarettes: A Numbers Game
People often criticize the amount of money spent on space exploration. Sometimes it's well-meaning friends and family who say that…
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- Charles Bolden
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International Space Station Achieves 15 Years of Continuous Human Presence in Orbit
The International Space Station (ISS) achieved 15 years of a continuous human presence in orbit, as of today, Nov. 2,…
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NASA’s Space Launch System Passes Critical Design Review, Drops Saturn V Color Motif
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) blasts off from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in this artist rendering…
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Milestone Test Firing of NASA’s SLS Monster Rocket Engine Advances Human Path to Deep Space
During a 535-second test on August 13, 2015, operators ran the Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 rocket engine through a…
Exploring the Universe with Nuclear Power
In the past four decades, NASA and other space agencies from around the world have accomplished some amazing feats. Together,…