NASA

GE Aviation | March 02, 2016

Cincinnati-based GE Aviation has been tapped to work on a new NASA super plane that could cut overseas travel time in half or more. NASA wants to develop a new line of so-called "X-planes" or "experimental supersonic" passenger aircraft that will move travelers faster than the speed of sound. Supersonic passenger jets haven't flown since the Concorde, which could travel at twice the speed of sound....

wsiltv | July 14, 2016

CARBONDALE -- When we hear about NASA, most of the time we think of space exploration and astronauts. A camp in Carbondale is encouraging students to explore other opportunities NASA has to offer. Nicholas Loftus is just one of many students who chose to travel more than six hours to SIU's Transportation Education Center to get their hands on aviation equipment. "Aviation really runs in my family," Loftus says. "I want to become a pilot so any chance that I really can get to l...

  | July 14, 2016

An Irish doctor has been selected by US space agency Nasa to monitor the health of six astronauts, engineers and scientists who are due to spend three weeks in an undersea research station off the Florida coast. NUI Galway-based clinician Dr Derek O’Keeffe will apply his telemedical skills to check remotely on the wellbeing of the six aquanauts – one of whom is a fellow Irish man, Marc Ó Gríofa from Clonee, Co Meath....

popsci | July 14, 2016

NASA published this photo of the interior of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, showing off four new work platforms recently installed on the north and south sides of High Bay 3. The platforms will provide access to the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission 1. NASA's in the process of sprucing up the VAB in preparation for Mars missions....