NASA Craft to Face Heat-Shield Test on Its First Astronaut Flight Next Year

The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...
Morning Overview on MSN

After 10 years, NASA’s space plane is finally cleared for flight

NASA’s long-promised space plane is finally on the cusp of leaving the runway behind and heading for orbit, a decade after ...

NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.
Mid-Day

NASA and Boeing test longer, thinner wings to improve fuel efficiency and flight comfort

NASA and Boeing tested high-aspect-ratio wings aimed at reducing drag, improving fuel efficiency and ensuring smoother, safer ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA’s huge new rocket will soon send astronauts around the moon

The United States is preparing to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century, riding a ...
Futurism

NASA Planning Another Test Flight by Boeing’s Starliner

Despite a disastrous test launch that stranded two astronauts on board the International Space Station and caused it immense public embarrassment, Boeing hasn’t given up on its Starliner spacecraft ...

2026 will be the year NASA astronauts fly around the moon again — if all goes to plan

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...
PRIMETIMER

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center continues multi-mission flight research and innovation throughout 2025

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center advanced multi-mission flight research in 2025, including supersonic testing, ...
Reuters

NASA may require Boeing's Starliner to fly third uncrewed test

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - Boeing's (BA.N), opens new tab troubled Starliner capsule that left two NASA astronauts on the International Space Station last year may need to fly a third uncrewed ...

NASA's Artemis II crew runs through launch day countdown test at KSC

A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.
Antelope Valley Press

Flight research advances in ’25

NASA’s Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base advanced work across aeronautics, Earth science, exploration ...
NBC DFW

‘Best and Brightest:' TCU grad, Little Elm test pilot named NASA astronaut candidates

NASA introduced its newest astronaut candidates Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the moon and possibly Mars. Lawler, 38, most ...