VIDEO: NASA’s Ten-Engine Electric Plane Prototype Takes Off
A team at NASA’s Langley Research Center is developing a concept of a battery-powered plane that has 10 engines and can take off like a helicopter and fly efficiently like an aircraft. […]
A team at NASA’s Langley Research Center is developing a concept of a battery-powered plane that has 10 engines and can take off like a helicopter and fly efficiently like an aircraft. […]
Facts and figures about the Red Planet and how it compares to our home world. […]
SpaceX and NASA teams will gain important insight into how the Crew Dragon spacecraft and its abort system perform during a test slated for May 6, engineers said today. […]
Today we flew the first developmental test flight of our New Shepard space vehicle. […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Today the […]
For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto – the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July. […]
Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays that, according to scientists, could be the “howls” of dead stars as they feed on stellar companions. […]
Carrying more than 6,000 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies for the International Space Station crew, the unpiloted ISS Progress 59 cargo craft launched at 3:09 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. […]
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first commercial satellite for Turkmenistan. […]
The launch is currently scheduled for 6:14 PM EDT (UTC-4) from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. […]
The Mercury Atmosphere and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) instrument aboard NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft was designed to study both the exosphere and surface of the planet Mercury. […]
The “Space to Ground” web series, available every week, features a short wrap-up of the week’s activities aboard the International Space Station that showcases the diversity of activities taking place aboard the world’s only orbiting laboratory. […]