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A Look at the Science and Experiments Aboard Cygnus 'Rick Husband'

By Talia Landman, on March 26th, 2016

Expedition 47 crew member Tim Kopra captured this photograph of OA-6 Cygnus before the berthing early this morning. “#Cygnus when it was on its way to #ISS- the SS Rick Husband. @Orbital_ATK @Space_Station.” Credit: Tim Kopra/ @astro_tim on Twitter

On Saturday, March 26, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus resupply ship, named after the late astronaut Rick […]

Comet ISON Fizzes Like a Soda Pop

By David Darling, on July 26th, 2013

Photo Credit: NASA / SST

Coming soon to a region of space near you: comet ISON, which is expected to put on a spectacular show toward the end of the year. Currently, ISON is about 258 million miles from the Sun, between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. Its tail already stretches out more […]

Test Stand Readied to Test RS-25 Rocket Engine for SLS

By Jason Rhian, on June 18th, 2013

NASA is currently working to prepare the A-1 Test Stand at the space agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for testing the RS-25 rocket engine seen in the inset. Photo Credit: NASA (Inset Alan Walters / AmericaSpace)

In the latter half of 2014 NASA plans to launch the first of its Orion spacecraft and […]

SLS QM-1 Booster Readied for Tests by NASA, ATK

By Jason Rhian, on June 5th, 2013

Photo Credit: ATK

A full-scale version of Alliant Techsystems’ (ATK) solid rocket booster that will be used on NASA’s new heavy-lift booster, the Space Launch System, or “SLS,” is being readied for testing. The center aft segment of ATK’s qualification motor-1 (QM-1) was sent to the site in the deserts of Utah on May […]

Apollo Test Stand Re-Purposed For SLS

By Jason Rhian, on May 6th, 2013

The B-2 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center is undergoing renovations to prepare it for testing of Space Launch Systems. Photo Credit: NASA/SSC

One of the test stands at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi which supported the development of the Saturn family of launch vehicles is now being tapped to test engines […]

NASA Conducts Failure Tests of Orion Parachutes

By Jason Rhian, on May 3rd, 2013

Image Credit: NASA

A test article of NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle conducted tests to see how the spacecraft’s parachutes would handle failure scenarios. The tests were conducted in the deserts of Yuma, Ariz., Wednesday, May 2, 2013.

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Solid Rocket Boosters Complete Space Launch System Program Milestone

By Jason Rhian, on May 2nd, 2013

Image Credit: NASA

NASA and ATK have completed Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the Solid Rocket Booster design that will be used on NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift booster. The completion of this milestone means that SLS is one step closer to launch, with the first flight planned to take place in […]

Hot-fire Tests Steering the Future of NASA's Space Launch System Engines

By NASA, on May 1st, 2013

A new record was set April 4 for J-2X engine test firings when the engine was fired for 570 seconds on the A-2 test stand at Stennis. With the completion of the test series on this stand, the engine will now be moved to the A-1 test stand where it will undergo gimbaling tests […]

Comet ISON Meteor Shower

By NASA, on April 29th, 2013

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Video courtesy of NASA

Anticipation is building as Comet ISON plunges into the inner solar system for a close encounter with the sun in November 2013. Blasted at point-blank range by solar radiation, the sungrazer will likely become one of the finest comets in many years.

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NASA Stitching Orion Components Together at Marshall Space Flight Center

By Jason Rhian, on March 29th, 2013

NASA is welding together the interstage assembly which will connect the Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 spacecraft to its Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle. Photo Credit: Mark Usciak

NASA’s engineers have been assembling the components for the flight test article that will fly on the Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) mission at NASA’s Marshall […]

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