Russia Adorns Its Space Center’s Soyuz Rocket Transporter With Ukraine Invasion Markings
Russian cooperation on international space programs is faltering amid sanctions and isolation over the war in Ukraine.
Russian cooperation on international space programs is faltering amid sanctions and isolation over the war in Ukraine.
The experimental X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, or QueSST, built by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works for NASA, is taking shape.
NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft was secretly equipped with infrared countermeasures for its high-profile 1983 European tour.
NASA owned a small fleet of APCs for emergency use but envisioned a broader role for its more ambitious XHRV-1 HAZMAT vehicle.
The Skunk Works-built X-59 that could revolutionize supersonic travel is getting closer to its first flight.
An upcoming test will explore the feasibility of using a “kinetic impactor” spacecraft to change the trajectory of an asteroid by crashing into it.
Northrop Grumman is now working to convert four RQ-4s as Range Hawks to gather data on the new breed of hypersonic weapons.
The KC-135 pioneered the winglet concept, but it never got them even after it was proven that they could save millions of gallons of gas every year.
The only American in space on 9/11 had no idea the towers were hit until he made a call to NASA. He soon saw ground zero for himself from orbit.
How much damage the X-56B, which NASA only began using in a new flight test program in April, may have sustained in this incident is unclear.