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A model of the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing aircraft is seen here installed for testing in the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel...
A model representing half an airplane featuring a truss-braced wing, installed for testing in a wind tunnel
The BioSentinel spacecraft enters a heliocentric orbit. BioSentinel will detect and measure the impact of space radiation on living organisms...
Illustration of the BioSentinel spacecraft with its four solar arrays deployed, facing the Sun. The Milky Way is seen in the background.
NASA Tests Mobile Air Traffic Kit During Wildfire Prevention Operations
NASA researchers test a mobile air traffic kit for remotely operated Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in DeSoto National Forest in Mississippi. The mobile air traffic is being developed for use in wildfire operations.
A quartet of CubeSats will show off their moves in a sort of orbital line dance when NASA’s Starling mission...
Two team members load a spacecraft into a CubeSat dispenser in a cleanroom. Two other team members observe.
NASA N941NA is the last Super Guppy Turbine Cargo Airplane in service.
The Super Guppy lands on the runway at Moffett Field at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. A person stands in front of the aircraft, directing it.
NASA Partners With Airlines to Save Fuel, Reduce Flight Delays
Computer screens at the Southwest Airlines Network Operations Control Center in Dallas, Texas, display NASA's Digital Information Platform Collaborative Digital Departure Reroute (CDDR) tool.
An instrument capable of helping locate water under the lunar surface has arrived at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston,...
A person with blue gloves, a lab suit, and mask is holding a device. The device has two cylinders connected together.
Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center...
Vance I. Oyama holds a readout from the gas chromatograph in the life detection laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in this picture from April 22, 1965. Oyama had a long career at NASA, during which he served as Life Detection Systems branch chief; he examined lunar soil samples and also helped design experiments for the Viking Mars Landers. Both he and his brother Jiro pioneered new areas of life sciences research at Ames.
Macro Photographs of 3D Print of NASA Meatball - Made out of GRX-810, an Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) High Temperature...
Smith and his team employed time-saving computer modeling, as well as a laser 3D printing process that fused metals together, layer-by-layer, to create the new alloy. They used this process to produce the NASA logo pictured above.
NASA’s X-59 has undergone final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. NASA’s X-59 has undergone...
Back-side view of the X-59 tail with a red cover over the engine nozzle. The red plug or covering protects the engine by creating a barrier so that foreign objects cannot enter the engine or engine inlet.
The VIPER chassis in the clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The VIPER chassis sits in the clean room with the NASA logo in the background.
MSOLO Science Instrument for VIPER Arrives at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
MSOLO is prepared to be integrated with NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The CAPSTONE small satellite successfully tested a navigation technology akin to Earth’s GPS for the first time in May, advancing...
An image of the Moon that curves through the middle of the image, with the cratered lunar surface in the lower left half of the image and the black of space in the upper right half.
No, it’s not hypermodern art. This image from a simulation generated by NASA’s high-performance computers, shows a Transonic Truss Braced...
This image, shows a Transonic Truss Braced Wing (TTBW) aircraft and how its wings interact with the air around them. The dark red area along the front of the wing represents higher-speed airflow.
Astronaut Jessica Watkins visited Mariano Castro Elementary School in Mountain View, California on February 28, where she had the opportunity...
NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins visited NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley on Tuesday, February 28, where she had the opportunity to engage with a local elementary school and speak with Ames employees.
Jang Woo Lee, mayor of Daejeon Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea, visited NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley on...
Two men wearing suits shake hands in front of a screen showing the NASA logo, which fills the wall behind them.
A science instrument that can reveal the composition of lunar soil has arrived at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston...
Two people in white lab coats in a clean room make adjustments to the NIRVSS instrument.
On Sunday, Dec. 11, the Orion spacecraft made its fiery descent through our atmosphere and returned to Earth, splashing down...
Grey cone-shaped spacecraft on the surface of the water, with three orange balloons at its top. There are three grey motor boats on its way to the spacecraft, with white foam in their wake.
During his visit to Ames, Cabana took a tour of the center that featured highlights of NASA facilities critical to...
NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana pilots the lunar lander at the Vertical Motion Simulator (VMS) facility,
Ames has a longstanding history of collaboration with the Navy, including current technology partnerships involving human health, life support and...
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Anne M. Swap and Michael Hesse, director of science at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, talk in the lobby of the Biosciences Collaborative Facility at Ames.
Humans won’t trek alone in future crewed missions to deep space. Robots are a central part of NASA’s plan for...
Inside the International Space Station, two astronauts work alongside two floating, cube-shaped robots
NASA’s CubeSat Proximity Operations and Demonstration (CPOD) mission will set out to perform for the first time a series of...
Four engineers from Terran Orbital Corporation pose with the CubeSat Proximity Operations and Demonstration (CPOD) spacecraft at their facility in California.
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket that will carry the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft...
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket sits on the pad at the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand for wet dress rehearsal ahead of the CAPSTONE launch.
The first full-scale replica of the agency’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) at the Chabot Space and Science Center...
Joeletta Patrick, Director of NASA's California Office of STEM Engagement, Eugene Tu, Ames Center Director, Adam Tobin, Chabot Director, Ryan Vaughn, lead mission systems engineer, Cara Dodge, Ames Event Lead, in front of VIPER model.
On May 6, U.S. Congresswomen Anna G. Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren. Reps. Eshoo and Lofgren joined Ames Center Director Eugene...
From left to right: Javier González, head of External Affairs in California at Google, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Anna Eshoo, and Ames Center Director Eugene Tu tour the inside of Hangar One.
Expanding the capabilities of small spacecraft as critical platforms for research and technology demonstrations, the agency’s SmallSat Technology Partnerships (STP)...
USU researchers Charles Swenson and Lucas Anderson
A model of the X-59 aircraft, the centerpiece of NASA’s mission to gather information intended to help enable a new...
X59 JAXA Quesst Japan Wind Tunnel
“I’m helping manage a new program [at NASA] called Student Airborne Science Activation, or SaSa. The program focuses on recruiting...
Samiah Moustafa, Program Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, in front of snow capped mountains
“Shí éí Nikki Tulley yinishyé. Tódích’íí’nii nishłį́. If I were to identify myself in my community, in my language, that’s...
Nikki Tulley, an Assistant Research Scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) is undergoing final construction – and with solar panel...
An engineer in a white lab suit holding a tape ruler to a small, microwave-sized, rectangular small satellite. One side has black panels, and others have silver panels and foil. Three team members are seen in the back.
The Astrobee and Project CIMON (Crew Interactive MObile companioN) robots had their first photo shoot in space after more than...
The Astrobee and Project CIMON (Crew Interactive MObile companioN) robots side by side aboard the International Space Station.
A biology experiment called BioNutrients is testing a way to use microorganisms to produce nutrients – off Earth and on...
Aditya Hindupur, lead scientist for the BioNutrients experiment, inspects a production pack after removing it from an incubator in a lab at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.
U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry visited the largest wind tunnel in the world, located at NASA’s Ames...
Two men in suits stand in front of the blades of an enormous fan
If small, unmanned aircraft could be made smarter and more independent, they could help firefighters and other responders do even...
A quadcopter drone flies in front of the exterior of a wind tunnel bearing the NASA logo.
Don Durston never grew out of building model planes – they’re just a whole lot more sophisticated these days! The...
A man in a red shirt leans forward to look closely at a metal airplane model installed in a wind tunnel.
The test version of NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover was tested in the high sinkage sand-like material of NASA...
A yellow robotic rover kicks up sand in a mobility test bin.
To be an astronaut, you've got to dig deeper. This is something Deniz Burnham, a newly selected NASA astronaut candidate,...
Deniz Burnham at a field test of drilling and sampling prototype instruments, as part of the Life-detection Mars Analog Project’s deployment at the Rio Tinto, Spain, Mars-analog site in the summer of 2017.
NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft (QueSST) is pictured here at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in California, wrapped up in...
X-59 wrapped with a red bow to prepare for it's move to Texas.
CLICK Team Tests Optical Communications Technology Ahead of Small Spacecraft Swarm Demonstration
CubeSat assembly
NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft arrived in California with the heat shield skin for a future version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft...
Plane taxiing on an airfield, with the structure of a decommissioned hanger in the background. Sun is rising in the background.