NASA spent the last two weeks hoisting a 103-ton component onto a simulator and installing it to help prepare for the next Moon missions. Crews fitted the interstage simulator component onto the Thad ...

HAMPTON, Va. – A group of NASA astronauts will be at NASA’s Langley Research Center this week to fly in a simulator that is being used to help evaluate the subsonic handling characteristics of Sierra ...

NASA once again shoved a group of people into a small receptacle, not to be seen for quite a while, all in the name of exploration. On Saturday, NASA posted a video showing four volunteers walking ...

A knock on the door around dinnertime isn’t always welcome. But for four NASA volunteers, it was the first outside human interaction in over a year. On Saturday, after 378 days of solitude, ...

NASA officials are revealing what life was like spending a year inside a Mars simulation and say the United States might reach the red planet by the "end of next decade." Commander Kelly Haston, ...

METECS will provide simulation and software services for space-based vehicle models. Credit: Michael Barad/Timothy Sandstrom/NASA/Ames HOUSTON—NASA has selected Houston-based MacLean Engineering & ...

NASA has officially unveiled the four-person crew chosen for its second CHAPEA mission — short for Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog — a 378-day simulation of a human mission to Mars.

A flight simulation program developed by an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has won Marshall’s 2004 “Software of the Year Award.” This year’s winner is ...

The prospect of living on other planets, easily achieved in fictional Hollywood productions, isn't so simple for the scientific community. The amount of research and data it takes to accomplish such a ...

Mars in true color. Photo by the European Space Agency/wikimedia commons. This past summer, Professor Jason Lee of the University of Connecticut’s Mechanical Engineering Department traded in his usual ...

NASA’s next crew of “astronauts” won’t leave Houston, but they will live like they’re 140 million miles away — sealed inside a simulated Mars habitat for 378 days. NASA said last week that four ...