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Existing folding wings require an actuation system that is bulky, and requires multiple parts including hydraulics, pneumatics, and electric motors.

Today, SAGE III is safely installed where no continuous Earth-observing instrument has gone before, on the outside of the International Space Station.

A fleet of small satellites, equipped with sensors could enable real-time mitigation of collisions with orbital debris.

For astronauts on orbit, the Isspresso machine makes space a little bit more like home.

The pictures Viking sent to Earth are helping scientists today pick landing sites for Mars missions in the future.

Pilots have long been training on virtual reality simulators, but these have limitations. It’s challenging to replicate how each aircraft feels.

Using technology similar to what NASA used on the Apollo 15 mission, LIDAR could be used to create maps of both vegetation and surface roughness that would help firefighters find the easiest path to safety.

To make sure all components of the Webb observatory are prepared to handle the brutal mechanical conditions the telescope may face during launch, technicians and engineers are intentionally putting it through punishing tests.

With concerns about crew safety and return from the proposed space station, researchers at Langley begin working on a re-entry vehicle to bring astronauts home.

In experiments conducted on the station, medical researchers found a way to combine two liquids incapable of mixing on Earth.