NASA’s CHAPEA mission, designed to simulate the challenges of long-duration Mars exploration, has now reached a milestone, ...
Rotors spin 10 times faster than modern helicopters.
The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during ...
Astronaut and geophysicist Andrew Feustel is a veteran of three NASA spaceflights and alumnus of Purdue EAPS. Currently he is Lead Astronaut with Vast. He spoke with Lucy Flesch, Frederick L. Hovde ...
NASA's thruster is an MPD thruster, which uses electric currents and magnetic fields to propel lithium plasma away from the ...
NASA is sending a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars. Alongside Tuesday's announcement of its new Ignition program, which features a planned Moon base and a successor to the International Space ...
ESA is studying repurposing the Earth Return Orbiter it planned to build for the Mars Sample Return program into a standalone science and communications orbiter. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC ...
For decades, NASA and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California have relied on some of the driest, most rugged places on Earth to simulate the extreme environments on Mars. California ...