MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — The 2007 NASA Government Invention of the Year is a heat shield material slightly more dense than balsa wood that is designed to protect spacecraft during their fiery re-entry ...

SPACE CENTER, Houston – NASA said Wednesday that the mysterious object that came flying off Space Shuttle Discovery's (search) fuel tank during liftoff was a sizable chunk of foam insulation — the ...

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Houston? NASA engineers have concluded that flawed manufacturing caused the fuel-tank insulation failure that forced the most recent shutdown of the program. And they hope to have it resolved in time ...

Energy infrastructure giant CB&I has completed the first fill of a liquid hydrogen storage tank at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, testing an insulation approach that could lower the cost of ...

NASA managers have cleared the agency's leak-bedeviled Artemis moon rocket for the start of another countdown early Monday, but engineers must resolve questions about hurricane-damaged insulation ...

NASA scientists are developing parachute-like decelerators to help land large payloads onto Mars’s surface in future missions. This animation illustrates how the agency will test the decelerators in a ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design successfully was tested today by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ...