19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
..., and hydraulic systems. “Today is a great day for NASA, Stennis and this nation’s human space exploration program. This ...solid rocket boosters and other parts of the rocket and NASA’s Orion spacecraft on the mobile launcher inside the Vehicle ...
04 May 2021
New NASA Administrator sworn in
... by Charles F. Bolden, who served as administrator from 2009 to 2017. Nelson’s family and Pam Melroy, nominee for NASA deputy administrator, were guests at the ceremony. “I was glad to be joined today by my rock, my wife, Grace, my children, deputy...
24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
... of its two, 28-foot-long, roll-out solar arrays. They will power both the spacecraft and NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster – Commercial ion engine, one of several technologies being tested on DART for future application...
10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
...understanding of the universe for years to come. Each NASA spacecraft is carefully chosen to target brand new observations enabling...,” said Martin Weisskopf, IXPE’s principal investigator at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. ...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... a comparison between Christopher Columbus and the Spanish Monarchs, which financed him, to today’s space agencies like NASA. However, today we live in a ‘commercial’ Space Age which has far stronger parallels to the Dutch East India...
12 April 2016
Visionary ideas that could transform future NASA missions
... the development of pioneering technologies from diverse and non-traditional sources. By nurturing these visionary ideas, future NASA missions could be transformed with the creation of breakthroughs that are radically better or entirely new aerospace...
