ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 7 (UPI) --NASA needs new ways to investigate accidents that occur during human spaceflight when private companies like SpaceX and Boeing are launching astronauts, an agency ...

This proposed procurement is a follow-on for an independent assessment of NASA space vehicle accidents associated with the use of radioactive materials onboard the NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory 2009 ...

A NASA team that independently reviewed the unsuccessful launch last year of Orbital ATK’s third commercial resupply services mission The mission was intended to deliver cargo to the International ...

NASA and Aerovironment conducted the first aircraft accident investigation on another planet, examining the crash of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. The likely cause of the crash was a malfunction in ...

US space agency NASA is laying claim to the first ever aircraft accident investigation conducted on another planet. NASA says engineers from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are ...

This image of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument of the Perseverance rover on June 15, 2021, the 114th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The location, "Airfield ...

NASA released a summary Monday of the findings about why its Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology spacecraft did not complete its mission and collided with the intended rendezvous ...

TL;DR: NASA has confirmed that Ingenuity, the Martian helicopter, will not fly again but will still serve a purpose. It was in January this year that NASA announced its helicopter living on the ...

NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today said two veteran astronauts, Apollo commander Thomas P. Stafford and Space Shuttle commander Richard O. Covey, will lead a distinguished task force to assess the ...

The loss of two shuttle orbiters and 14 brave astronauts gave NASA and the nation several textbooks worth of painful lessons about launching humans into space, including how easy it is to forget those ...

A new NASA exhibit recognizes the tragic loss and enduring legacy of the crew of Apollo 1. On the 50th anniversary of a fatal launch pad fire that killed three pioneering astronauts, "Ad Astra Per ...