Russian scientists have developed a plasma electric rocket engine that could enable travel to Mars in just one to two months.

The Space Shuttle was a groundbreaking achievement in aerospace engineering—combining the power of a rocket with the ...

Rob Dahm is refining the unique 15.7-liter Y12 rotary engine, originally designed by Tyson Garvin as a twelve-rotor ...

At 5 p.m., President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation. “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the ...

On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer ... The Company, Marshall Space Flight and NASA made a business decision. He made a human decision.

One of the engineers who warned that launching the space shuttle Challenger could prove disastrous will speak at UNLV next week. "Inside Views of the Challenger Disaster" will be the topic when Roger ...

Up until now, the main way of propelling spacecraft has been through chemical rockets. To be fair, that's nothing to sneer at. Chemical engines put the first satellite into space, the first man on ...

A decade ago humanity launched around 200 objects into space per year. Now we launch more than 2,600, with no prospects for slowing down. This rapid expansion of human activity in outer space has ...

The challenger’s ability to throw a heavy wrestling ... and every event he tops feels special. That said, the co-main event has the potential to be special as well. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH ...

One of the main benefits of having a National Space Council is its singular focus on space matters. With a senior political appointee as its Executive Secretary, the National Space Council staff ...