23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... in a flawless flight which saw SpaceX launch both a reused rocket and a reused capsule for the first time. The Crew Dragon ... astronauts lifted off from US soil on a private American rocket. Its two veteran NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley...
24 September 2021
New reactor could turn Mars' atmosphere into rocket fuel
... of Mars’ atmosphere so that it could be used as rocket fuel to get astronauts home if humanity ever sets foot on... to another gas is more versatile than just the production of rocket fuel says Wu. Right now our planet is experiencing rising average ...
18 March 2022
Rocket roll time for NASA’s new Moonshot
... Thursday (17 March) and the 322-foot tall, 3.5-million-pound rocket and spacecraft arrived at the pad in the early hours of ...I launch team through operations to load propellant into the rocket’s tanks, conduct a full launch countdown, demonstrate the...
19 September 2023
The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
...do so is often rewarded. This book offers the armchair rocket connoisseur the opportunity to get inside these establishments without a ... early monochrome view of the Kennedy Space Center ‘rocket garden’ shows how things have progressed since the 1960s...
13 April 2018
Air breathing rocket gets significant funding boost
... a jet engine with the power and high speed ability of a rocket. These scalable engines are capable of Mach 5.4 in air-breathing mode...Mach 3 – three times the speed of sound. However in rocket mode for space flight, SABRE can achieve Mach 25. BAE ...
05 August 2020
SpaceX’s Mars rocket prototype completes important test flight
...reach Mars with ever increasing ambitious flight tests of its Starship rocket. Built in a few weeks by SpaceX teams on the ...out of an entirely different steel alloy designed to make the rockets even sturdier than they already are, says Eric Ralph at ...
