SpaceX's Starship conducted its ninth test flight Tuesday evening, successfully surpassing the outcomes of two prior test ...

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to test next-generation materials.

NASA’s Artemis program has hit a critical snag—over 100 unexpected cracks have been discovered in the Orion capsule’s heat shield following the uncrewed Artemis I mission. The damage ...

So, NASA needed to make sure that any damage to the capsule– even its heat shield, which is meant to take some damage – wouldn’t risk the lives of a future crew. The Orion spacecraft ...

So, NASA needed to make sure that any damage to the capsule– even its heat shield, which is meant to take some damage – wouldn’t risk the lives of a future crew. On Dec. 11, 2022 – the ...

NASA announced last week that the next two Artemis missions will be delayed again following the discovery of Orion's capsule heat shield cracked and chipped away in places during the Artemis I ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the delays are needed to revise the Orion crew capsule's re-entry trajectory to reduce stress and prevent the sort of unexpected heat shield damage seen after ...

However, once NASA engineers got a closer look at the Orion spacecraft, their optimism faded. They saw cracks in the craft's heat shield and divots in the ablative thermal protection layer ...

"Throughout our process to investigate the heat shield phenomenon and determine a forward path, we've stayed true to NASA's core values; safety and data-driven analysis remained at the forefront ...

NASA has announced that it is delaying its ambitious Artemis II and Artemis III missions, which will see astronauts travel around and then land on the moon for the first time in over 50 years.

NASA finally knows what caused the erosion of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield following its historic trip to the Moon in 2022, but the space agency is not telling, at least not yet.