US Space Agency

Washington, March 1: The US space agency has finally given green signal for preliminary design of a "low-boom" supersonic passenger plane that will take people places with an unimaginable speed. This is the first in a series of "X-planes"…

Washington, Feb 20: US space agency NASA said on Friday that a record number of Americans have applied to be astronauts this year. NASA said in a statement it has received more than 18,300 applications for its 2017 astronaut class, almost…

New York, Feb 18: An engineer from University of Michigan has developed a prototype of a thruster that may form the basis for a propulsion system to take a manned spacecraft to Mars in the 2020s. NASA has funded a spaceflight propulsion…

New York, Feb 10: The US space agency NASA is not only full of scientists but it is also home to artistic dreamers and thinkers who once again stormed the internet with the release of new space tourism posters. These artists were behind…

New York, Feb 2: The Orion capsule, NASA's spacecraft designed to land humans on Mars, was carried from the US space agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to Kennedy Space Centre Florida for structural integrity tests. "The…

New York, Jan 25: The US space agency NASA is considering making new humanoid robots that could offer astronauts a helping hand in risky and extremely hazardous future space expeditions. The agency is developing a six-feet tall, 131.5 kg…

Washington, Jan 15: NASA is closer than ever to sending American astronauts to Mars in the 2030s and is empowering US entrepreneurs and innovators to expand the nascent commercial market in low-Earth orbit, the US space agency administrator…

Washington, Nov 26: The US space agency has successfully installed the first of 18 flight mirrors onto the James Webb Space Telescope, beginning a critical piece of the observatory’s construction to replace the Hubble Space Telescope by…

Washington, Aug 14: As part of its ambitious Space Launch System (SLS), the US space agency has successfully tested an engine that will help propel astronauts on future deep-space missions, including Mars. The 535-second test of RS-25…