Future of NASA’s mega moon rocket appears in doubt following major Boeing announcement
The primary manufacturer of the Space Launch System rocket, Boeing, made a sudden announcement on Friday that it was ...
Space shuttle Discovery successfully launches Sunday in dusk light show
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...
NASA’s New, $4 Billion Space Telescope Will Unravel a Great Cosmic Mystery
“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...
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Water-based plasma thrusters could power spacecraft for deep space missions
Scientists are developing a new space propulsion system that uses water as fuel, promising a more sustainable way to explore ...
Nine ‘cars of the future’ which NEVER hit the road – from F1-inspired Yamaha to Mazda that was lost in a FIRE
FOR many petrolheads, some of history’s greatest supercars are, in fact, the ones that never made it to production. For one ...
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Replacing SLS With SpaceX Falcon Heavy or New Glenn for Lunar Flyby
The NASA Artemis 2 mission would be a manned lunar flyby. It will cost about $5-10 billion with the SLS and Orion systems. A ...