The new rocket will use retrofitted space shuttle engines to send people to the moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA recently test-fired one modified RS-25 space shuttle engine at "113% thrust" to observe ...

The Space Shuttle was a groundbreaking achievement in aerospace engineering—combining the power of a rocket with the ...

Rob Dahm is refining the unique 15.7-liter Y12 rotary engine, originally designed by Tyson Garvin as a twelve-rotor powerhouse. Garvin constructed the Y12 from a single block of 7075 aluminum, a ...

NASA Blue mach diamonds from the main engine nozzles and bright exhaust from the solid rocket boosters mark the successful ...

It’s no Fiero, but this Pontiac muscle car got fast and furious for science. It’s every street racer’s fantasy: The ...

Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately ... not as immediately forceful as a chemical rocket, but ion engines require less fuel and therefore less ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia ... after a failure in the shuttle’s right solid rocket booster.

Common propellant combinations include liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (used in the Space Shuttle main engines), or solid propellants (used in some rocket boosters). Advanced propulsion ...

President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...

Engines throttling up ... The explosion led to the grounding of the Space Shuttle fleet for nearly three years, during which various safety measures, solid rocket booster redesign and a new ...