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Boeing Begins Initial Flight Tests of X-48B
Boeing Begins Initial Flight Tests of X-48B

Boeing Phantom Works’ subscale Blended Wing Body technology demonstration aircraft began its initial flight tests from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research…

Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits
Black Holes Have Simple Feeding Habits

At the center of spiral galaxy M81 is a supermassive black hole about 70 million times more massive than our…

Global Hawks Bring New Capabilities to Science Community
Global Hawks Bring New Capabilities to Science Community

Two Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration aircraft were transferred from the U.S. Air Force to NASA’s Dryden…

Mir Means Home
Mir Means Home

Astronaut Shannon W. Lucid made history in 1996 on the Russian Mir Space Station, her home for six months, as…

We Have Liftoff!
We Have Liftoff!

Space shuttle Discovery blasts away from Launch Pad 39A atop towers of flame as it races toward space on its…

Mirror Image on First Spacewalk of STS-124
Mirror Image on First Spacewalk of STS-124

STS-124 Mission Specialist Mike Fossum participates in the mission’s first spacewalk. Visible in the reflections of his helmet visor are…

Third Spacewalk Completed
Third Spacewalk Completed

With the blackness of space and the Earth’s horizon as a backdrop, astronaut Ron Garan completes the third spacewalk of…

Second Spacewalk of STS-124 Mission
Second Spacewalk of STS-124 Mission

Astronaut Ron Garan, participates in the mission’s second scheduled session of extravehicular activity along with Mike Fossum, as construction and…

Discovery Undocked
Discovery Undocked

A view of the space shuttle Discovery soon after the shuttle and the International Space Station began their post-undocking relative…

Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
Earhart Crosses the Atlantic

Eighty years ago this week on June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic…