Telescope Door on IRIS Opens

In its first step towards science operations since launch, the IRIS team opened the IRIS telescope door on July 17, 2013.

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NASA Announces Effort to Form New Collaborative Partnerships with Private Space Industry

NASA officials Wednesday released a synopsis requesting information from U.S. private enterprises interested in pursuing unfunded partnerships. The aim is to advance the development of commercial space products and services.

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ISS and Earth dissasters

The International Space Station (ISS) partner agencies released a statement Wednesday on the benefits of the space station during natural disasters on Earth.

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NASA Kepler Mission Update

NASA's Kepler mission is helping in the quest for "Goldilocks planets," where conditions are "just right" for development of life.

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Alphasat installed on Sylda

Europe's largest telecom satellite Alphasat is installed on Ariane's Sylda dual launch pod in the Batiment d'assemblage final in Kourou, French Guiana, on 12 July.

Credit: CNES

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Luca on camera

Luca Parmitano taking photos during Tuesday's spacewalk. A little more than an hour into the sortie, Luca reported water floating in his helmet and NASA Mission Control decided to end the spacewalk early

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Astronaut Chris Cassidy Takes a Photo

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 36 flight engineer, uses a digital still camera during a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. 

Eye-to-eye with typhoon

Technology image of the week: Typhoon Soulik caught by a tiny camera on one of ESA's smallest satellites

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NASA Researchers Work to Turn Blue Skies Green

A big part of NASA's work to reduce the environmental impact of aircraft has moved into phase two.

A semi-span jet model is scheduled to be tested in NASA Langley's 14-by-22 Foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel this winter to evaluate aircraft noise reduction technologies as part of the Flap and Landing Gear Noise Reduction Flight Experiment.

Fay Collier, manager of NASA's ERA Project.

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Aeronautics Research Making Air Travel Safer, Greener and More Efficient

Our work will help find solutions for increasing the capacity, efficiency and flexibility of our national airspace.

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Supersonic Laminar Flow Tests Continue on NASA's F-15B

NASA Dryden's F-15B research aircraft flying small Aerion Corp. experimental test airfoil at supersonic speeds to gauge its laminar airflow capability.

Dryden electronics technician Chris Brooke of Computer Science Corp. prepares the SBLT-II experiment hung underneath NASA's F-15B for flight test.

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Listening for the Boom and Rattle of Supersonic Flight

NASA engineers test people's reactions to simulated sonic booms to help develop technologies that might allow supersonic passenger jets to fly over land.

More than 100 subwoofers and mid-range speakers generate the sonic boom noises that test subjects rate from least to most annoying.

Researcher Jonathan Rathsam briefed sonic boom noise test listeners before they heard the more than 200 sounds they were asked to assess as part of NASA's supersonic technology research.

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NASA Tests Radio for Unmanned Aircraft Operations

NASA is flight testing a radio that could be used for communications with remotely piloted vehicles.

NASA's S-3 Viking research aircraft at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

NASA Books Reveal Wisdom Gained from Failure

The latest in NASA Aeronautics' Book Series tells the stories of lessons learned from accidents involving remotely piloted or autonomous aircraft.

"Crash Course" chronicles the lessons learned from failures over the decades of remotely piloted or autonomous unmanned aircraft systems used by NASA, from Perseus to the X-36 and from subsonic to hypersonic speeds.

Nothing Bugs These NASA Aeronautical Researchers

A unique team is studying ways to prevent insect impact remains from sticking to an aircraft's wing in flight.

Bug team researcher John Gardner lies inside the Basic Aerodynamics Research Tunnel, or BART, to prep leading edge of a scale model wing for a blast of bugs from the tunnel's bug "gun."

X-48 Research: All good things must come to an end

After nearly six years, a successful and productive joint NASA-Boeing X-48 Hybrid / Blended Wing Body flight test project at NASA Dryden concludes.

The X-48C Hybrid Wing Body research aircraft banks right over NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base during one of the sub-scale aircraft's final test flights on Feb. 28, 2013.

NASA Researchers Sniff Out Alternate Fuel Future

What's in the exhaust of alternative jet fuels is a must-know to be sure it would actually be better than what aircraft use today.

Puffy white exhaust contrails stream from the engines of NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory in this photo taken from an HU-25 Falcon flying in trail about 300 feet behind.

Aviation Safety Analyst Flies with Blue Angels

Abegael Jakey, pilot and NASA aviation safety advocate, just flew with the Blue Angels. What did you do today?

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NASA Partner Boeing Invites Media to View Cst-100 Spacecraft Mockup

The Boeing Company of Houston is inviting media to view a full-size test version of its CST-100 spacecraft as NASA astronauts conduct evaluations inside it.

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NASA Invites Media, Public to Hangout at Live Orion Parachute Test

NASA will host a Google+ Hangout from the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. EDT July 24, as an Orion test capsule is dropped from a plane at 35,000 feet to evaluate its parachutes.
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NASA TV to Air Briefing Today on Early End to Spacewalk

NASA Television will air a news conference today at 4:30 p.m. EDT to discuss this morning's spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The news conference will take place at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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