“The eight-year, approximately $230 million NASA Hyper-X program was a high-risk, high-payoff research initiative that tackled challenges never before attempted.” The X-43A remains twenty years after its last flight in an odd niche in aerospace engineering: the most referenced,

The map unveils small mare ridges, geologically young features that will aid the selection of landing sites for future Moon missions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission (left to right) will be: NASA astronauts ...

Starliner launched on June 5, 2024, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station. The test flight was initially expected to last between eight and 14 days.

NASA’s efforts to return astronauts to the moon have been delayed — again. The agency announced Tuesday that its next Artemis mission, which was to have sent four astronauts on a flight around the moon in a next-generation capsule, will launch in ...

STRIVE seeks to take measurements from the upper troposphere to the mesosphere while EDGE seeks to make glacier, and ice observations.

The initiation of NASA’s latest space transport program, the Orbital Space Plane (OSP), was challenged today by the Space Frontier Foundation, which estimates the program’s chances of success at zero. "Through all its vehicle development programs since ...

MELBOURNE, Fla. — A federal watchdog agency tasked with government spending oversight took aim again at NASA's multibillion-dollar Space Launch System rocket, the backbone of the agency's lunar-focused Artemis program. The report, released last week ...

Grounded until at least April, NASA’s giant moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week for more repairs before astronauts climb aboard. The space agency said Sunday it’s targeting Tuesday for the slow,