Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond.
A fungus that evolved at Chernobyl and is now grown on the ISS, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, slightly reduced radiation levels.
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a compact reactivity control system for the MARVEL sodium-potassium-cooled microreactor.
One of these involves the extent to which astronauts flying on board SpaceX’s Starship should be able to take manual control of the vehicle during flights down to the lunar surface.
NASA’s approach to managing the development of crewed lunar landers for Artemis has successfully controlled costs but not schedule.
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YUMA — The pilot of a U.S. Marine Corps Harrier jet that crashed into a Yuma neighborhood in 2005 may have been able to safely land the plane but was ordered to eject by his flight leader, a report ...