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Russian Deep Space Nuclear Rocket Gets Funding Boost
Nuclear Rocket Gets 3.81 billion rubles ($60 USD) for 2016-2018 Back in 2010, Russia launched a nuclear rocket engine project that would be the centerpiece ... -
The Dry Ice Engine - an Alternative Energy Source for Mars Colonies
High School Students Construct Dry Ice Engine To Power Colonies on Mars How do you think a Martian colony will be powered? Solar Energy? Nuclear? For most of ... -
Darpa's XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane
XS-1 Experimental Spaceplane Joins Growing List of Reusable Launch VehiclesThe US Military high tech research agency, DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), is working ... -
India Launches Prototype Space Shuttle for Just $14 Million
Prototype Shuttle Launch a Major Development in Low Cost Access to SpaceIndia has joined the race to develop inexpensive, reusable launch vehicles with a successful ... -
Chinese Next Generation Rockets Aim for Deep Space
Chinese Next Generation Rockets Will Launch This YearLater this year, China will launch it's new heavy lift rocket, the Long March-5. It's a big rocket. Long ... -
Revolutionary Space Transportation System Begins Testing
Forget Solar Sails -- Try an E-sail Instead It's one of the biggest problems in space transportation ... Time. It takes a lot of time for conventional, chemical ... -
Russia's Space Nuclear Engine Receives Fuel
Prototype Space Nuclear Engine To Be Revealed in 2018 Russia's state-run nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, has been developing a nuclear engine for spacecraft since 2010. The ... -
See Blue Origin Stick a Landing - from the Rocket's Point of View
Blue Origin Releases Video of Successful Rocket LandingBlue Origin, a private spaceflight company dedicated to developing rocket technology for suborbital -- and eventually orbital -- ... -
Russian Rocket Engines Under Attack
Russian Rocket Engine Ban Forces ULA to no-bid Air Force Launch ContractAfter Russia annexed Crimea, the U.S. Congress slapped the country with sanctions -- including ... -
Space Station Art from the 1970's - A Look Back to 1975
Space Station Designs Still Inspire 40 years LaterIn the 1970's, toward the end of the Apollo program, U.S scientists and engineers debated the evolution of ...