NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

Thirty years ago there was no Internet, laptop computers or CDs; Gerald Ford was president; “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” was on TV; and “Jaws” was at the movies. But in South Mississippi, NASA ...

The engine once powered a servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Next, it will power a crewed mission around the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Almost four months after the American space agency NASA installed the first newly built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, hardware ...

The Space Shuttle was and forever will be a very special vehicle in the history of space exploration. Over the course of three decades starting in 1981, the small fleet of spaceplanes took to the sky ...

The idea of space travel is a novel one, and one that seems impossible when you really start looking at everything it involves. Not only do we have to come up with a way to generate artificial gravity ...

Pulsar Fusion may be a new name in the space race, but they are one of the most famous companies now for getting funding from the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) for its novel development. The ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Startup Stoke Space has begun tests of the full-flow staged combustion rocket engine that will power the first stage of its reusable Nova medium-lift launch vehicle. Updating progress ...

The Earth is much larger than most people realize. You need to use engines if you want to efficiently navigate large sections of the planet. Everything from cars to planes relies on engines, but they ...

NASA kicked off the final certification series for its Artemis moon-rocket engines with a dramatic "hot fire" test this week. NASA will begin using repurposed RS-25 space shuttle engines to fly ...

Three Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) today successfully powered the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on Mission STS-133 to deliver spare parts and a modified cargo ...

EDMONTON, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Space Engine Systems (SES), following on its success in securing a place in UK MoD’s Hypersonic Technology and Capability ...