HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the first drop test of the main parachute that will help recover the first stage of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. Ares I will ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – NASA and industry engineers successfully tested the main parachute for Constellation Program rockets during a drop test Thursday at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A parachute failed during a NASA test of new technology for landing larger spacecraft — and eventually astronauts — on Mars, the agency said Monday. The parachute deployed but failed ...

The Mars 2020 rover project is in full swing at NASA, and the agency has chosen to base the new rover on the phenomenally successful Curiosity design. That means the rover needs to slow down in the ...

How do you test the parachutes that will save spacecraft as they tumble towards the surface of a planet from the reaches of space? In the world’s largest wind tunnel, of course. This is a view inside ...

NASA broadcast a spin test of its near-space-bound “rocket-powered, saucer-shaped” space capsule on Tuesday. That’s right, NASA is sending a flying saucer into space. And it really looks like, well, a ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A parachute inflated during a test of new technology for landing larger spacecraft on Mars, but it then disintegrated immediately afterward, NASA officials said Tuesday. The parachute ...

The Martian Aerogel Jacket incorporates materials originally crafted for one of NASA’s most celebrated missions. The parachute used by the Mars Rover mission, which landed on February 18, 2021, serves ...

LOS ANGELES -- The skies off the Hawaiian island of Kauai will be a stand-in for Mars as NASA prepares to launch a saucer-shaped vehicle in an experimental flight designed to land heavy loads on the ...

(AP) The skies off the Hawaiian island of Kauai will be a stand-in for Mars as NASA prepares to launch a saucer-shaped vehicle in an experimental flight designed to land heavy loads on the red planet.

Video streaming by UstreamEarly Wednesday morning, NASA engineers will drop a model spacecraft big enough to hold four astronauts from 35,000 feet up in the air — and you can watch what happens next, ...