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Wired
October 2009
Michael Reilly |
Could a Gravity Trick Speed Us to Mars? A trip to Mars takes 6 months, but NASA engineer Robert Adams may be able to cut that time in half with an all-but-forgotten secret of orbital mechanics.   |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Sarah Douglas |
NASA's Icy-Hot Rocket Engine Rocket engines don't get much cooler than this. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2003
Paul Eisenstein |
Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well. |
Chemistry World
May 18, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
Rocket fuel goes green with ionic liquids Military researchers in the US have developed a novel 'green' rocket fuel whose constituents are less corrosive and toxic than those used in conventional propellant systems. |
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
How to Make a (More) Environmentally Friendly Rocket Fuel Every NASA space shuttle launch leaves a huge cloud of exhaust in its wake, and some nasty chemicals lurk in the exhaust. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2009
Jill Jusko |
Researchers Investigate Gelled Rocket Fuels Two teams of researchers are working to develop a new type of gelled fuel designed to improve performance of rockets for military and space applications. |
Popular Mechanics
October 27, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Critics and Proponents Wait Out NASA's Ares 1-X Rocket Delay Severe winds and bad weather delayed NASA's first Ares 1-X rocket test today. The launch, which will culminate in a 6-minute flight to test the new hardware, will pick up again tomorrow at 8 am. |
Popular Mechanics
December 12, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
NASA Will Tinker With Open-Source Rocket for Return to Moon The "brains" of the Ares I rocket that will be built by Boeing, but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts. |
Chemistry World
January 23, 2008
Michael Gross |
Turning Gas Into Fuel Cheaply Researchers in Japan have developed a fuel cell that can convert methane, the main component of natural gas, into methanol, a useful fuel, at moderate temperatures. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009 |
Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage. |
Popular Mechanics
October 28, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches |
Geotimes
July 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon. |
Popular Mechanics
January 29, 2010
David Noland |
Rebel Engineers Sit With NASA to Chart Future of Manned Space President Obama will officially reveal his budget, and his plans for NASA, on Monday, Feb. 1. NASA officials deferred answers to questions until after the budget is released. |
Chemistry World
December 23, 2015
Richard Massey |
Green rocket fuel breaks records Chinese scientists have developed a new family of safer chemical propellants with the shortest ignition times and lowest viscosities of any ionic fluid rocket fuels to date. |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2004
Dean Andreadis |
Technology: Scramjets integrate air and space As the 21st century unfolds, a revolutionary engine technology is aiming to fly craft at high Mach speeds and seamlessly integrate air-to-space operations. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Sandra Upson |
Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back |
Wired
July 20, 2009
John Brandon |
Torture Chamber: NASA Tests Next-Gen Craft for Space Blast For the past two decades, rocket scientists have been trucking prototypes to NASA's Space Power Facility for test flights. But to accommodate the agency's latest vehicle, Orion, the facility is going to require some remodeling. |
Popular Mechanics
November 18, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Hopes Stirring at NASA for Ares Engineering Vindication: Exclusive NASA engineers at Marshall Flight are cautiously optimistic that the fears about the under-construction Ares I rocket's propensity to shake violently have been overstated. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Will Take To The Skies Again Next Week CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket around December 19. |
Popular Mechanics
July 14, 2008 |
Inside Mojave Air and Space Port: Photo & Video Gallery Think you've seen the future of private spaceflight? Think again. Take a look at the freewheeling desert outpost where maverick engineers are inventing the next generation of planes. |
Wired
July 2001
Tom McNichol |
The New Red Menace Robert Zubrin has a grand plan to turn the fourth planet into humanity's new frontier - within the next 10 years! Welcome to hell on, um, Mars... |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Otis Port |
Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver |
Wired
December 2004 |
After the X Prize Manned space travel's best hope is the private sector, not NASA. In the open market, entrepreneurs and space hobbyists will do in a decade what NASA couldn't do in 46 years: provide safe, reliable trips to the heavens for the cost of a Caribbean cruise. |
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Europe Horns In On Mars By 2016, the U.S. may unite with the European Space Agency for future Mars trips - a move that would mark a significant shift for NASA. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Orbital Sciences Up, Up, and Away The successful test of NASA's X-43A scramjet is good news for the company. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2005
Aldrin & Noland |
Roadmap To Mars So far, NASA's plan to reach the red planet has been short on detail. Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin unveils his own step-by-step proposal for mankind's next giant leap. |
InternetNews
July 13, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Discovery Launch to be Aired Online The STS-114 shuttle launch has been postponed, but Yahoo and Akamai have agreed to broadcast the entire 12-day mission live online. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Erik Sofge |
Jet Packs Finally On Sale: How to Buy Your Rocket Belt The good news: Not one, but two companies are selling jet packs. The bad news: The tech has a long way to go. |
Geotimes
March 2004 |
NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history. |
Wired
January 2001
Ed Regis |
Zip Drive NASA scientists are building a hot little ride: Vasimr, a rocket that runs on million-degree plasma and could someday fuel a fast-track trip to Mars... |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2008
Thomas D. Jones |
5 Years Later, 5 Hard Lessons From the Columbia Shuttle Disaster: Resident Astronaut As NASA readies Atlantis for a Feb. 7 launch to the International Space Station, it observes a week packed with painful memories of three spaceflight tragedies: Apollo 1, Challenger and the fifth anniversary of the loss of Columbia. |
Wired
October 2005 |
Trackback A Rocket to Nowhere... The Kool-Aid Point... |
Science News
May 12, 2007 |
Timeline: From the May 8, 1937, issue Places last bolt in frame of 200-inch telescope... New form of matter found in cosmic-ray bombardments... Undergraduates plan rocket study with new society... |
Chemistry World
November 9, 2012
Laura Howes |
No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2005
John Rhea |
The $10 billion NASA market NASA's budget for fiscal year 2006 envisions spending $10 billion for new competitive opportunities with industry, academia, and the agency's own field centers -- with the big-ticket item being the President's plan for returning humans to the Moon and exploring the planets. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2009 |
NASA & Its Discontents: Frustrated Engineers Battle with NASA over the Future of Spaceflight The economic crisis, growing tensions with Russia and political change in Washington are already prompting calls to rewrite the space agency's plan. |
Geotimes
July 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Titanic Methane Mystery Solved? Planetary scientists discovered dozens of lakes, some connected by river-like channels, at Titan's north pole. Researchers suggest that the lakes could hold enough liquid methane to resupply the Saturnian moon's atmosphere with methane gas. |
Chemistry World
August 5, 2009
James Urquhart |
Martian methane breaks the rules Variations in methane concentration across Mars defy our current understanding of methane photochemistry, say French scientists. |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Greener explosives show promise Eco-friendly explosives based on nitrogen compounds could soon compete with conventional detonators and propellants used in pyrotechnics, mining, and military applications. |
Wired
October 20, 2008
Preston Lerner |
Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets The Association of Rocket Mavericks is a group of amateur rocketeers that are the top guns of model rocketry and may be the future innovators of the aerospace industry. |
Popular Mechanics
September 25, 2007
Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon. |
National Defense
April 2012
Dan Ward |
Faster, Better, Cheaper: Why Not Pick All Three? Before we start making unnecessary tradeoffs, sacrificing speed and performance in the name of thrift, maybe we should reevaluate what happened at NASA in the 1990s. What the data tells me is this: FBC worked, and it's worth another try. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2006
Caitlin Werner |
The Answer Is in the Stars In the search for a way to remedy our problems in math and science education, we should look to NASA for help. |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003 |
Micro fuel cell runs cool Researchers have made a tiny methane fuel cell that works at 60 degrees Celsius. They have also shown that the fuel cell can use high concentration methanol to increase its operating time. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2004 |
U.S. space experts focus on reusable launch systems for small satellites The business of orbital satellites continues to grow, and the biggest growth in demand is coming from the smallest payloads. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2011
Jon Cartright |
New molecule could propel rockets The largest nitrogen oxide molecule discovered to date could function as a rocket propellant, according to chemists in Sweden who have synthesised it for the first time. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Floral Shade Aids Search for Earths The search continues for the Earth-like planets that scientists think are most likely to harbor life, and a newly refined sunflower-shaped device could one day reveal scores of candidates currently obscured by their neighboring star's light. |
National Defense
July 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Experimental Rockets Boost Expectations of Lower Costs The Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA to develop simpler and less expensive launch vehicles. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 21, 2005
Jeffrey L. Cruikshank |
Let's Start a Rocket Company! An example excerpted from the newly published Shaping the Waves: A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, and a Q&A with with its author. |
Popular Mechanics
September 9, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking. |
