In rocketry, what goes up usually comes down in pieces. The cost of getting to orbit is exorbitant, because the rocket, with its multimillion-dollar engines, ends up as trash in the ocean af... Read more
EVERYTHING about space flight is superlative. Even relatively modest rockets are hundreds of feet high. The biggest (the Saturn V, which launched astronauts to the Moon) remains the most pow... Read more
NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen tr... Read more
Musk says that methane fuel has performance, cost and storage advantages over alternatives SpaceX intends to build a methane/liquid oxygen (Lox) engine, said founder Elon Musk, in a shift aw... Read more
“Speculating that it will be in the region of “a few hundred million dollars.” California-based non-profit B612 Foundation has announced its intention to place an asteroid-... Read more
A cargo carrier designed for low Earth orbit could provide a cheap route to the red planet. Dragon, the privately built space capsule intended to haul cargo and astronauts to the Inte... Read more