Casey Handmer is an Australian-born physicist, engineer, entrepreneur, and pilot renowned for his pioneering work at the ...

NASA's new spaceship of the future must endure searing temperatures capable of melting iron, steel or chromium as the spacecraft streaks into the Earth's atmosphere on the way back from the moon.

Hawthorne, CA (February 20, 2009) – Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announces the passing of a significant technical milestone in the development of its Dragon spacecraft with the ...

One of the greatest engineering challenges in spaceflight is to protect a spacecraft from the searing heat of re-entry, as the fate of the Space Shuttle Columbia so tragically illustrated. So, one of ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Scientists here at the NASA Ames Research Center are testing high-tech materials they hope will hold up to ...

An illustration of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft entering the Martian atmopshere. A spare heat shield from that mission, planned for use on Mars 2020, cracked during recent tests. Credit: ...

The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets and jet aircraft. But the life of those materials is limited by ...

Jet impingement heat transfer and boiling dynamics represent a synergistic approach that combines the targeted delivery of a fluid jet with the phase change processes of nucleate boiling to achieve ...

The heat shield for NASA's next Mars spacecraft just cracked open. Luckily, engineers found this out during testing here on Earth, long before the Mars 2020 rover mission leaves for the Red Planet in ...