As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts prepare to make their way back to Earth after traveling around the moon, perhaps the most ...

Testing is one of the unsung steps in the engineering process. Talk to any product development engineer, and they will tell you how big of a milestone passing "V&V"—or verification and ...

SpaceX’s experimental test of metallic heat shield tiles for the Starship vehicle ended in failure, with the tiles degrading rapidly under extreme thermal stress. The setback exposes a significant ...

Deputy project manager Patty Ortiz is framed in the window of a thermal chamber at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center used to stress-test sensors such as those on Artemis II's capsule that will ...

Two years ago next week, NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean to wrap up what, at first glance, seemed to be a highly successful unpiloted test flight that made a return to the ...

Smoke billowing off NASA’s heat shield material during a recent test at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For decades, Sandia National ...

When Artemis II comes blazing back through the Earth's atmosphere, it will be traveling at around 25,000 miles per hour and reach temperatures up to 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The only thing protecting ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. NASA has wrapped up a two-year-long investigation into the cracked heatshield on the Artemis I Orion module that landed back on Earth after being sent on a ...

SpaceX bypassed a second attempt to catch a returning Super Heavy booster in its launch gantry, but demonstrated for the first time reignition of a Starship Raptor engine during the program’s sixth ...

EDWARDS, Calif. – The Artemis II astronauts are scheduled to return Friday from their trip around the moon. When they do, they will slam into Earth’s atmosphere at over 32 times the speed of sound – ...