Professor Mark Drela (center), chief engineer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology aircraft design team, helps undergraduate students Nina Siu…
One of the advanced design concepts – the D8 or “double bubble” – is now a subscale model being tested…
Like rivers of liquid water, glaciers flow downhill, with tributaries joining to form larger rivers. But where water rushes, ice…
One of the fascinating aspects of viewing Earth at night is how well the lights show the distribution of people.…
The relatively placid view from the International Space Station belied the potent forces at work in Hurricane Earl as it…
The terrain for the scientific work conducted by ICESCAPE scientists on July 4, 2010, was Arctic sea ice and melt…
Artist’s concept of the Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft, a collaboration between NASA and Argentina’s space agency, with participation from Brazil, Canada, France…
NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments are…
This international crew that flew aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger represented the largest number (eight) of persons to occupy an…
Astronaut Guion S. Bluford Jr.
