NASA craft to face heat-shield test on its first astronaut flight next year

The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...
Ars Technica

NASA tested a new SLS booster that may never fly, and the end of it blew off

NASA’s Space Launch System appears to have a finite shelf life. The Trump administration wants to cancel it after just three launches, while the preliminary text of a bill making its way through ...

NASA Artemis rocket booster suffers anomaly during test

NASA conducted a full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor - part ...

NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.
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NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center continues multi-mission flight research and innovation throughout 2025

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center advanced multi-mission flight research in 2025, including supersonic testing, ...
Yahoo

NASA's testing a futuristic plane. You might fly on it.

NASA isn't just considering a futuristic plane on Mars. It's developing the future of your commercial planes, too. The space agency's Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project — intended to slash the ...
Yahoo

NASA video of moon rocket test shows something just went seriously wrong

Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test ...

NASA and Boeing test longer, narrower wings for more efficient flying

Long, narrow wings are intended to reduce fuel consumption and increase comfort in aircraft. However, wing flutter must be ...
SpaceNews

NASA Conducts First Test of Redesigned Moon Rocket Engine at Stennis

NASA conducts an RS-25 hot fire on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi on Dec. 14. Credits: NASA/SSC NASA conducted the first test of the newly redesigned RS-25 ...
SpaceNews

NASA Test Fires New Rocket Engine For Commercial Space Vehicle

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi conducted a successful test firing Wednesday of the liquid-fuel AJ26 engine that will power the first stage of Orbital ...
ExtremeTech

NASA Completes Ground Testing of Starliner Engines

NASA and Boeing say they have wrapped up ground testing on Starliner's engines at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. While the team is not quite ready to give astronauts Butch ...
Digital Trends

Watch NASA test its next-gen spacesuit for ISS spacewalks

The developers of a next-generation NASA spacesuit recently reached a key design milestone, the space agency reported on Monday. Collins Aerospace is building the new suit for spacewalks outside the ...