The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump ...

Mars represents one of the most promising locations in our solar system to search for signs of past or present life ...

NASA returned to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years on Thursday, with help from Houston-based company Intuitive Machines. The uncrewed Odysseus lunar lander, built and operated by ...

NASA has selected three companies to develop Human Landing Systems (HLS) to support future crewed moon landings. Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX will develop their designs over a ten month ...

But why do NASA, the 45th Space Wing of the Space Force ... limits a rocket and spacecraft can experience during ascent and landing to ensure a successful end of mission. Variables like wind ...

The agency will simultaneously pursue two landing architectures, or strategic plans, during formulation, encouraging competition and innovation, as well as cost and schedule savings. NASA plans to ...

“We are exploring two new landing options,” said Dr. Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “One is to leverage technology that was previously used to ...

"This has been a quite an odyssey the last five, six, seven, eight years," Hurley said during a NASA live broadcast after the recent landing. "To be where we are now — the first crewed flight of ...

That’s the next “year of Mars.” Jezero Crater on Mars, the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 mission. The oval indicates the landing ... [+] ellipse, where the rover will be touching down on ...

Back in July 2020, for example, the maximum total cost of the Mars sample return (MSR) campaign — a collaboration between NASA and the ... industry to provide the landing system.