John Carmack's Armadillo Lunar Lander Crashes, Burns
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Game designer John Carmack's fourth and final shot at winning the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge ends in flames. After a loud explosion, his Armadillo lander is surrounded by a pool of fire, which spreads approximately 30 feet away from the rocket.
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Images from the spacecraft show two craters that may have been altered by the recent flow of water
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A board investigating the crash of NASA&#39;s Genesis spacecraft has found the design for a key system was drawn backward. The result: improper orientation of switches that were supposed to detect its entry into
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The Genesis space capsule and its precious cargo -- billions of particles from the sun -- crashed into the Utah desert Wednesday in a last-minute bungling of a near-flawless, three-year scientific odyssey.
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Vibrations in NASAâs new rocket may cause severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.
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A brief hailstorm at the Kennedy Space Center significantly damaged the external fuel tank of the space shuttle Atlantis on Monday, and NASA officials said yesterday that a mid-March launch of the spaceship will have to be postponed as a result.
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The Genesis space capsule that crashed into the Utah desert last month failed because four pencil stub-size gravity switches designed to trigger the release of the spacecraft&#39;s parachutes
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By Richard StewartANGLETON -- Angleton, we have a problem. Plans to build what was once hailed as a futuristic takeoff and landing facility for commercial spacecraft on the coastal prairie of Brazoria County may soon come crashing to Earth.
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico  - A commercial   rocket blasted off from a site in New Mexico on Monday, but   malfunctioned before it reached space, organizers said.
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This is a sad day for the NASA Family. Yesterday&#39;s vanpool accident involving employees of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has taken the lives of three of our own: Dorothy M. Forks, an employee records
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUNDS, Utah -- NASA&#39;s Genesis return capsule crashed into the desert Wednesday morning due to an apparent malfunction in its parachutes.
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The US space agency NASA says incorrectly installed switches are the likely cause of the crash earlier this year of the Genesis space capsule.
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Early this morning, a small flash illuminated the surface of the Moon as the European Space Agencyâs SMART-1 spacecraft impacted onto the lunar soil, in the âLake of Excellenceâ region.
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LOS ANGELES Dec 8, 2004 - A commuter van from NASA&#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory tumbled 200 feet off a twisting mountain road Wednesday, killing three people and injuring seven, one critically, authorities said.
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LOS ANGELES -- Two months after surviving a giant dust storm, one of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars began a risky drive Tuesday into a crater blasted open by a meteor eons ago.
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NASA says a poorly designed parachute is the likely reason its space probe, Genesis, came crashing back to earth last week, losing much of its cargo of solar dust.
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A packed commuter van heading to NASA&#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory plunged off a wet, winding mountain road yesterday and tumbled 200 feet, killing three people.