Rocket technology predates space exploration by almost a thousand years, and although today's computerized multi-ton launch vehicles are a lot more capable than 11th-century gunpowder-assisted ...

How was the rocket that launched the Curiosity Rover to Mars different from the one that took Neil Armstrong to the moon? Join Dr. Larry de Quay of NASA as he explains the physics and chemical ...

The P8 research and technology test bench enables the testing and development of individual engine components through to entire propulsion systems with a wide range of available media. The M3 ...

This text will serve both undergraduates interested in propulsion, and practicing engineers ... of low and high speed air breathing and rocket engines. Usefully, this book also covers the basics of ...

The P8 research and technology test bench enables the testing and development of individual engine components through to entire propulsion systems with a wide range of available media. The M3 ...

But these rockets must carry oxygen with them into space, which can weigh them down. Unlike chemical propulsion systems, nuclear thermal propulsion systems rely on nuclear fission reactions to ...

An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and could one day power a rocket that makes ...