Rocket program deep in the red
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The United States military&#39;s new rocket program is $14.44 billion over budget and counting, raising questions about how long taxpayers can subsidize two of America&#39;s biggest
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A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today.  &nbsp;  The backers of Canadian Arrow, a rocket entry in the &#36;10 million Ansari X Prize competition, watched happily as their crew compartment drifted down into Lake Ontario.  &nbsp;  Today totally proves our Canadian Arrow design, said Geoff Sheerin, leader of the London, Ontario-based Arrows bid for the X Prize. It went really well and everything worked as it should. ...
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The first privately financed manned rocket to fly into space has been named Time magazine&#39;s âInvention of the Year.&#39;&#39;.
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Vibrations in NASAâs new rocket may cause severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.
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Five science satellites blast off on a single rocket -- it's a mission to find the source of powerful geomagnetic substorms in the Earth's atmosphere. By the Associated Press.
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Time was you could get to the moon in a few days, and you can still do it if you have a really big rocket. But SMART-1, a washing machine-size spacecraft carrying an experimental engine, has taken the long way around.
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The &#36;10 million competition to send a private manned rocket into space started looking more like a race Thursday, when a Canadian team announced plans to launch its rocket three days after an American group intends to begin qualifying for the Ansari X prize.
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The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet.
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It may seem, from a distance, just one small step. But in a few months, it should prove to have been a giant leap. NASA plans today to roll out from an assembly facility near New Orleans a redesigned fuel
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When a privately built rocket plane soared into space earlier this month, astronaut wannabes were giddy with the hope that they&#39;d finally make it off the planet.
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CANOGA PARK, Calif., Feb. 17  /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's RS-27A rocket engine powered five NASA scientific satellites into orbit today. The purpose of the mission is to unlock the mysteries of Earth's geomagnetic substorms.
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Rocket geeks are flocking to the X Prize Cup "rocket festival" this weekend in New Mexico. On show are rockets, robots and planes, as well as a flying lunar lander, courtesy of game designer John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace.
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A new massive rocket commissioned by the US government and eyed by NASA to deliver heavy cargo into orbit fell short of its target during a long-awaited inaugural mission late Tuesday.
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Here's a good rhyme to remember Transonic by: high compression fuel injection.
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The Decatur build Delta 4 Heavy rocket has apparently hit a little snag. The rocket&#39;s engines didn&#39;t fire as long as it was supposed to and the dummy satellite it was carrying missed it&#39;s intended orbit.
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With two short trips to the edge of space, the little rocket that could may have ushered in a new era in high-tech travel.
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GOLDEN, COLORADO -- Any high hopes of sustaining expeditions on the Moon, Mars or beyond will depend on getting &quot;down and dirty&quot; on those worlds -- in the form of using on-the-spot resources.