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Flying Over Ames
Flying Over Ames

NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley has been flying the rainbow flag along with the California, U.S. and NASA…

A Test Version of the Booster for NASA’s New Rocket
A Test Version of the Booster for NASA’s New Rocket

A test version of the booster for NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System, will fire up for the second…

Secretary Kerry Lands in Silicon Valley for Global Entrepreneurship Summit
Secretary Kerry Lands in Silicon Valley for Global Entrepreneurship Summit

On June 22, 2016, Ames Center Director Eugene Tu greeted Secretary John Kerry as he arrived at Moffett Field.

This Week in NASA History: Marshall-managed Life and Microgravity Spacelab Launches — June 20, 1996
This Week in NASA History: Marshall-managed Life and Microgravity Spacelab Launches — June 20, 1996

This week in 1996, STS-78 and its primary payload, the Life and Microgravity Spacelab, launched.

Capping off a Core Stage Confidence Tank
Capping off a Core Stage Confidence Tank

Todd Gough, a Boeing fabrication specialist at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, installs the end cap test fixture…

Michoud ‘Tanks Up’ for NASA’s Deep Space Rocket
Michoud ‘Tanks Up’ for NASA’s Deep Space Rocket

A crew completes installation and checkout procedures for the liquid oxygen tank weld confidence article, left. The liquid hydrogen and…

Pervasive Ice Retreat in West Antarctica
Pervasive Ice Retreat in West Antarctica

Along the Bellingshausen Sea coast of West Antarctica, ice has been retreating inland being lost to the sea. Scientists knew…

First ‘Wind Nebula’ Around a Magnetar
First ‘Wind Nebula’ Around a Magnetar

This X-ray image shows extended emission around a source known as Swift J1834.9-0846, a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star called a…

Qualification Testing on Avionics System
Qualification Testing on Avionics System

Ratana Meekham, a Qualis Corp. engineering technician at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, helps install approximately 5…

X-57 Maxwell – Electric Propulsion Airplane
X-57 Maxwell – Electric Propulsion Airplane

NASA engineers say the X-57 Maxwell all-electric airplane, as shown in this artist’s rendering, is expected to validate research that…