Gen. William L. Shelton, Commander of Air Force Space Command, testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on…
General Shelton Senate Testimony
Gen. William L. Shelton, Commander of Air Force Space Command, testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on…
Measuring ESA’s IXV spaceplane
ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV, is tilted and turned along and around all three axes at…
NASA Officials and Astronauts Tour Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building
At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA officials and Apollo astronauts tour the refurbished Operations…
Orion Crew Module at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, Kennedy Space Center
NASA's Orion spacecraft crew module has been stacked on the service module inside the Operations and…
#RosettaAreWeThereYet — Once upon a time…
...there was a spacecraft called Rosetta. Rosetta had been travelling in space for 10 years, towards a…
The Eagle Prepares to Land
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, in a landing configuration was photographed in lunar orbit from…
U of C professor helping NASA’s mission to study massive asteroid
Two hundred years from now, an asteroid could crash into Earth. Asteroid Bennu is an Earth-crossing…
NASA says moon pits could shelter astronauts
According to new observations from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, the moon’s steep-walled pits, that…
Astronaut John Glenn at Cape Canaveral
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., wearing a Mercury pressure suit, is photographed at Cape Canaveral, Florida,…