Software developers are using game-making technology to show NASA the best way to prepare spacecraft for orbit.
Scale models of the Orion crew exploration vehicle recently were tested at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, or NBL, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and at a wave tank at Texas A&M University in College Station.
NASA tested the parachutes for the recovery system on its Orion crew exploration vehicle above the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona on July 31.
NASA and Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, reached another milestone Friday with the successful test firing of a critical safety component for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, NASA's next generation of spaceships.
› Read MoreAt 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.
NASA engineer Barry Roberts wants to help build a better rocket that can fly despite record low temperatures, hail, or rain.
Second generation airbag drop testing is underway at the Landing and Impact Research Facility at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
NASA has awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston, to develop a new spacesuit that future astronauts will wear to the moon.
NASA and Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, has unveiled a new vertical test stand that will be used later this summer to support NASA's Constellation Program.
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?
Crew module mockup arrives at Dryden for test preparations.
Engineers tested the components for the Ares I roll control system during recent evaluations.
The Constellation Program's first step toward the Moon -- a Pad Abort-1 flight test -- is less than a year away.
In a car commercial, it would sound odd: active suspension, six-wheel drive with independent steering for each wheel, no doors, no windows, no seats and the only color it comes in is gold.
For the next generation of space explorers, landing on the moon or Mars might feel similar to playing an out-of-this-world video game.
Orion's prototype heat shield undergoes rigorous testing.
'Rocket Boy' Homer Hickam helps launch an Ares I scale model rocket at the Marshall Center.
Get the cold, hard facts about setting up an inflatable lunar habitat in Antarctica straight from Larry Toup's frigid fingers.
NASA has selected Altair as the name of the lunar lander the Constellation Program will use to put humans on the moon.
Three teams from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida journey west each year to participate in the agency's Desert Research and Technology Studies.