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Space Station Astronauts Check Out Starliner Systems and Prepare for ...

Structural Dynamic Analysis in Rocket Propulsion and Launch Vehicles

Born in Frankfurt in 1908, Debus was the colleague that Wernher von Braun, the visionary behind the Saturn V rocket, put in charge of the massive job of building NASA’s

The second American to orbit the Earth, Scott Carpenter, blasted off on May 24, 1962 and made three trips around the planet before he accidentally landed off-course. See

NASA is launching its first planetary defense test mission — DART — and Johns Hopkins APL public affairs officer Justyna Surowiec wants to make sure you know all about it.

Meet some of the engineers contributing to NASA’s Psyche mission, which will be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche. This trailer previews the team

It takes hundreds of people and years of hard work to get a spacecraft from Earth to Mars. So when NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down on the Martian surface, it will be

  • How Rockets Work: The Physics Behind Space Travel
  • Structural Dynamic Analysis in Rocket Propulsion and Launch Vehicles
  • Behind the Spacecraft: DART

Sending a rover to the Red Planet is more than just 321 Liftoff! ? It takes 1,000s of people and years of hard work to get a spacecraft from Earth to Mar

Behind the Spacecraft: Europa Clipper

Many people assume that atmospheric heating during reentry is primarily caused by friction between the spacecraft and the air. While this is true for aircraft moving at supersonic speeds,

Behind the News is a fun, accessible way for upper primary and secondary students to learn about what’s happening in the world around them.

NASA’s #DARTmission is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to change its motion in space. But how will we know if this test worked? That’s where Jo

That’s why Johns Hopkins APL engineer Michelle Chen helped develop new autonomous navigation techniques that will ensure a bullseye. NASA’s DART mission will

NASA’s DART mission is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to change its motion in space. But how will we know if this test worked? That’s where Johns Hopkins APL

Meet some of the engineers contributing to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which will study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to see if it has conditions suitable to support life.

  • Behind the Spacecraft — Perseverance Mars Rover
  • Behind the Spacecraft: Justyna Surowiec
  • The technology it took to get to the Moon
  • NASA’s Real ‚Hidden Figures‘
  • Rocket Physics, the Hard Way: Spacecraft Maneuvering and Control

NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid on purpose! Our DART mission is a first-of-its-kind Planetary Defense test to change the motion

That inspiration is highlighted in the new “Behind the Spacecraft” video series, in which five members of the Psyche team tell the story of how they ended up on a mission

The book and movie „Hidden Figures“ celebrate the contributions of African-American „human computers“ who performed mathematical equations and calculations in the

Drawing showing the Apollo 11 rocket and spacecraft in the launch configuration. Once the “how” had been answered, a new spacecraft needed to be designed to take the

As shown in Fig. 67, two spacecraft are initially on Orbit 1. The chase or interceptor spacecraft is at the point marked Impulse Point and the target spacecraft is behind the chase craft in the

That inspiration is highlighted in the new “Behind the Spacecraft” video series, in which five members of the Psyche team tell the story of how they ended up on a mission designed to answer questions about the mysterious asteroid Psyche.

STS-41G Challenger’s 1984 mission patch was designed by Patrick Rawlings and served as the baseplate for crew patches until the Challenger disaster in 1986. Its main focus

STEREO Mission Operations personnel at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, in Laurel, Md., will synchronize spacecraft orbits so that about two months

The spacecraft reportedly exploded around 8.5 minutes after launch over the Atlantic Ocean near the Turks and Caicos Islands. The FAA, on January 18, required a mishap investigation of the

spaceflight, flight beyond Earth’s atmosphere. This article deals with the basic concepts associated with the launch and return of unmanned and manned spacecraft and their travel,

NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid on purpose! Our #DARTmission is a first-of-its-kind #PlanetaryDefense test to change the motion of an asteroid in space so that

INFORMATION LEARNED: The 2016 contact with STEREO-B revealed new information about the spacecraft’s rate of spin and precise location in space – which is particularly important

Meet some of the engineers contributing to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which will study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to see if it has conditions suitable to

Meet Luis Dominguez, an engineer on NASA’s Psyche mission, which will be the first to explore a metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche. In this video, Dominguez, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion