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Blue Origin Tests BE-3 Engine
Blue Origin Tests BE-3 Engine

Blue Origin test fires a powerful new hydrogen- and oxygen-fueled American rocket engine at the company’s West Texas facility. During…

Comet ISON Streaks Toward the Sun
Comet ISON Streaks Toward the Sun

Comet ISON is just nine days away from its close encounter with the sun.

F/A-18 Research Jet Tests for Space Launch System
F/A-18 Research Jet Tests for Space Launch System

An F/A-18 research jet simulated various flight conditions that NASA’s Space Launch System may experience from the launch pad to…

Taking Flight at Cape Canaveral
Taking Flight at Cape Canaveral

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft launches from the Cape…

Tannen Vanzwieten, NASA Engineer and Pompano Beach, Fla., Native, Designing Innovative Autopilot for NASA’s Space Launch System
Tannen Vanzwieten, NASA Engineer and Pompano Beach, Fla., Native, Designing Innovative Autopilot for NASA’s Space Launch System

Tannen VanZwieten, a native of Pompano Beach, Fla., is solving the equation on how to maneuver the Space Launch System…

Eric Gilligan, NASA Engineer and Roxbury, N.J., Native, Testing Innovative Autopilot on F/A-18 Jet for NASA’s Space Launch System
Eric Gilligan, NASA Engineer and Roxbury, N.J., Native, Testing Innovative Autopilot on F/A-18 Jet for NASA’s Space Launch System

Eric Gilligan, a native of Roxbury, N.J., is part of a team that is designing algorithms that will be used…

The James Webb Space Telescope’s ‘Backplane’ Leaves NASA Marshall
The James Webb Space Telescope’s ‘Backplane’ Leaves NASA Marshall

Bound for Northrup Grumman in Redondo Beach, Calif., the James Webb Space Telescope’s critical backplane testing has been completed at…

YO-3A
YO-3A

The YO-3A aircraft was originally a Schweizer SGS-2-23 sailplane.

Fine-Tuning Rotorcraft Simulations
Fine-Tuning Rotorcraft Simulations

Researchers in the Rotary Wing Project in NASA’s Fundamental Aeronautics Program are developing advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods to…

Tannen VanZwieten
Tannen VanZwieten

Tannen VanZwieten, 31, a native of Pompano Beach, Fla., began her NASA career in 2008.