Author: Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board

The development and application of increasingly autonomous (IA) systems for civil aviation is proceeding at an accelerating pace, driven by the exp...

Research in biological and physical sciences in space provides the critical scientific and technological foundations that make space exploration po...

More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required ...

Historically, the United States has been a world leader in aerospace endeavors in both the government and commercial sectors. A key factor in aeros...

Prior to 2012, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology had been primarily used by the military and hobbyists, but it has more recently transitio...

Over the past 5 years or more, there has been a steady and significant decrease in NASA's laboratory capabilities, including equipment, maintenance...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently undertaking a broad program known as Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) to ...

In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The c...

Leadership in gas turbine technologies is of continuing importance as the value of gas turbine production is projected to grow substantially by 203...

The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life an...

When discussing the risk of introducing drones into the National Airspace System, it is necessary to consider the increase in risk to people in man...

Advanced aerial mobility is a newly emerging industry that aims to develop and operate new air vehicles potentially capable of safe, reliable, and ...

Among the various segments of society affected by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year and a half, few were hit as hard as the aviation industr...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on February 4th and 5th, 2021 to review the issues related to saf...

On November 29-30, 2018, in Washington, D.C., the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the Workshop on the Continuous Imp...

Advancing the state of aviation safety is a central mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Congress requested this re...

The Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology (TARAM) is a process for calculating risk associated with continued operational safety issues in...

In the five decades since NASA was created, the agency has sustained its legacy from the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) in playi...

The primary human activities that release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere are the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) ...

On June 15, 2011, the Air Force Space Command established a new vision, mission, and set of goals to ensure continued U.S. dominance in space and c...

The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may coll...

The United States is currently the only country with an active, government-sponsored effort to detect and track potentially hazardous near-Earth ob...

Additive manufacturing has the potential to positively affect human spaceflight operations by enabling the in-orbit manufacture of replacement part...

Decades of continuous efforts to address known hazards in the national airspace system (NAS) and to respond to issues illuminated by analysis of in...