When astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope in October 2008 for its final servicing mission, they will be facing a task that has no precedence – performing on-orbit 'surgery' on two ailing science instruments that reside inside the telescope.
Champion swimmer Michael Phelps knows swimsuits; NASA researcher Steve Wilkinson knows drag reduction. Put them together, and you get record-breaking Olympic trials.
Later this summer NASA will attempt to deploy and operate the first spacecraft in low Earth orbit propelled only by the power of sunlight.
NASA has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston, to develop a new spacesuit that future astronauts will wear to the moon.
At the bottom of NASA’s 40-foot-deep swimming pool – known as the Neutral Buoyancy Lab – astronauts strap on weights and plastic piping to simulate the backpack that attaches to a spacesuit.
Gamma-ray detectors from NASA's Swift mission could be applied to detect smuggled nuclear material.
After 10 years of fine-tuning a technique to efficiently manufacture super-thin, curved mirrors needed to focus X-ray photons, Goddard astrophysicist Will Zhang and his team have won a position on the NuSTAR mission to provide the telescope’s more than 3,000 individual mirror segments.
Twenty-five years ago, NASA inaugurated a new era in spacecraft communications with the launch of the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS.
A simple NASA technology that protected Apollo and Skylab also comes to the rescue on Earth.
Imagine yourself hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shoulder, inside a room the size of a walk-in closet for eight hours with five people you just met. Does that make you sweat? Or maybe make your breathing a little more animated?