including validating the spacecraft's performance and practicing docking with the SLS upper stage as a target. If everything works according to plan, the doors will be opened so that humans can ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

Humans could be living on the moon before 2030, a NASA official told the BBC. Howard Hu, who oversees the Orion spacecraft used in the Artemis program, told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg ...

"However, when it became clear that we might have to execute this flyby with one of the solar arrays unlatched, we chose to use ... The spacecraft was named after Lucy, the fossilized human ...

Humans have been flinging things into deep ... Leslie Young, wants to use the spacecraft for a new look at something closer to home: the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune. New Horizons’ unique ...

The European Space Agency — which helped build the Orion spacecraft that will carry four ... the Orion vehicle that will be used for Artemis II is getting ready for this first mission to bring ...

The fastest human-made objects are spacecraft. They use rockets to break free of the Earth’s gravity, which takes a speed of 25,000 mph. The spacecraft that is traveling the fastest is NASA’s ...

Spacecraft used for human spaceflight carry people on board as crew or passengers. Spacecraft used for robotic space missions operate either autonomously or telerobotically. Robotic spacecraft ...

A common case where spacecraft controllers use aerobraking is when changing the craft’s orbit ... Aerobraking maneuvers can result in significant fuel savings. As humans get closer to landing on the ...

According to NASA, the Psyche spacecraft, a Deep Space Optical Communications ... NASA's laser communications technology used in the demonstration is designed to transmit data ten to 100 times ...

A common case where spacecraft controllers use aerobraking is when changing the ... Aerobraking maneuvers can result in significant fuel savings. As humans get closer to landing on the surface ...