NASA Engineers thought Sally Ride would need 100 tampons for one week in space. Ride, who became the first American woman in space in 1983, recalls NASA engineers designing a toiletry kit for her in the new documentary 'Sally',

After the first test flights in 2025, Lockheed Martin will transfer the plane to NASA. Then, after acoustic testing over California's Edwards Air Force Base and Armstrong Flight Research Center, NASA will fly the X-plane over select U.S. cities in 2026 and 2027.

While Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s situation is unusual, their return trip will be pretty routine, as they were already slated to fly home on a SpaceX capsule as part of a scheduled crew rotation.

The SPHEREx comprises two main sections — the bottom half is the spacecraft with the onboard computer, telecom system, solar array, and other parts, while the top half is the payload, which includes the BAE Systems-built telescope and also the cones that act as thermal shields to keep the observatory cool.

In new photos, the X-59 performs afterburner tests at Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California.

NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch pose for pictures after a news conference about the NASA's Artemis II mission outside the U.S. Capitol May 18, 2023 at Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

In a letter to his replacement, outgoing NASA leader Bill Nelson emphasizes the agency’s activities ‘transcend the length of a single administration.’

NASA recently paid tribute to the Challenger crew and other fallen astronauts during its annual Day of Remembrance.

Day of Remembrance service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

To comply, NASA has sought to sanitize Mars rovers at a threshold of no more than 300,000 bacterial spores on any surface. That process has revealed plenty of microbes that can survive high temperatures, low nutrients, and a lack of moisture.

Following in the footsteps of Aristotle and Galileo, NASA scientists look to take the next step in understanding auroras.