Second generation airbag drop testing is underway at the Landing and Impact Research Facility at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
A NASA team traveled to the lunar-like landscape at Moses Lake, Wash., to figure out what it will take to live and work on the lunar surface.
NASA successfully tested the Launch Abort System jettison motor, the first full-scale test for the Constellation Program's Orion crew exploration vehicle.
› Read MoreThe Constellation Program's first step toward the Moon -- a Pad Abort-1 flight test -- is less than a year away.
Launch, landing and rendezvous - the challenges to space exploration in the 1960s remain in the era of the Vision for Space Exploration
Langley veterans recall Sputnik.
Langley researchers have set their sights on Mars. They're designing an airplane that can fly in the thin Martian atmosphere.