65 Years Ago: First Powered Flight of...

2024-09-17, 18:52 NASA Newsy

The X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, built by North American Aviation (NAA), greatly expanded our knowledge of flight at speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes above 250,000 feet. A joint ...

NASA, GE Aerospace Advancing...

2024-09-17, 14:22 NASA Newsy

Hybrid-electric cars have been a staple of the road for many years now.Soon that same idea of a part-electric-, part-gas-powered engine may find its way into the skies propelling a future jet ...

Trio Nears Departure During Biology...

2024-09-17, 03:31 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

Three crewmates are preparing to end their stay aboard the International Space Station and return to Earth next week. Meanwhile, the rest of the Expedition 71 crew spent Monday exploring how space ...

Station Science Top News: September...

2024-09-16, 22:30 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) researchers examined the structures of four titanium-based compounds solidified in levitators in microgravity and on the ground and found that the ...

Case study: TRUTHS

2024-09-16, 19:29 UK Space Agency

New design of TRUTHS. Credit: ESA and AirbusThe Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio-Studies (TRUTHS) mission, delivered by ESA, will collect the most accurate measurements of ...

Expanded Crew Wraps Week with...

2024-09-13, 22:50 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

While three new crewmates get up to speed with living and working aboard the International Space Station another trio is preparing for its return to Earth. In the meantime, biomedicine and science ...

Earth from Space: Adriatic bloom

2024-09-13, 11:59 ESA

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures algal bloom swirls in the north Adriatic Sea, along the coast of Italy.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to ...

Station Crew Expands to 12 as New...

2024-09-13, 00:37 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

Three new crewmates joined the International Space Station crew on Wednesday after a three-hour ride that began at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with a launch aboard the Soyuz MS-26 ...

NASAs SpaceX Crew-9 Enters Quarantine...

2024-09-13, 00:22 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

Members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission will spend the next two weeks in routine preflight quarantine at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston ahead of their mission to the International Space ...

NASAs SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space...

2024-09-12, 23:52 Międzynarodowa Stacja Kosmiczna

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are headed to the International Space Station for the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission in September. Once on station, these crew ...