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NASA's next big spacecraft will be a solar-powered electric rocket

Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 3:44pm

With the shuttle fleet due to retire and the Constellation program — which was going to give NASA an option in deploying personnel to orbit and beyond — entirely scrapped, all eyes have been on what NASA will work on next. The agency has the answer.

It really is this easy to build your own rocket

Friday, April 23, 2010 - 6:44am

Got some free time this weekend? And some pocket change? AND access to a hardware store? Then, my friend, you've got what it takes to make a sweet compressed-air rocket. As you can see in the above video, all it...

This rocket ship house sure makes your house look boring

Monday, February 22, 2010 - 11:59am

How do you enter your home? Through a normal door? Bo-ring! Just take a gander at this ludicrous entrance, which is made to look like you're entering a spaceship (or at least a spaceship from the set of a 70's...

Galactic Suites space hotel is on course for a 2012 debut

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 1:46pm

Come 2012 (you know, providing the world doesn't end) you may have another venue for booking a luxury hotel: space. That's the hope of the Barcelona-based architects behind the Galactic Suites, anyway, who say that they are on track with...

Photo: Ares rocket's 'shock egg' in mind-blowing clarity

Kevin Hall

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 11:13am

Oh boy, I was waiting for this. Whenever NASA has a launch, there's always some cool photography to follow. What you're looking at is called a "shock egg," or the Prandtl-Glauert singularity, or a shockwave that compresses air and forces...

NASA's return to the moon 'unsustainable,' says review

Kevin Hall

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 1:18pm

The budgetary review of NASA ordered by President Obama has found that the program needs quite a bit more money than previously thought to reach its goal of getting back to the moon by 2020: $3 billion more yearly is...

NASA: Orion's escape system goes zero to 600 in 3.5 seconds, works during launch

Kevin Hall

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 2:31pm

Zero to 60? Try zero to 600. If you think a ride up into orbit would be intense, aborting one would be even more so. That's because NASA is making sure that its Orion crew module, which would blast off...

Pulse-jet bike is far from safe

Friday, June 26, 2009 - 10:31am

Looking to off yourself in the most spectacular and ridiculous way possible? You can't go wrong with a bike powered by a pulse jet! This enterprising Oregonian built just that for himself, and it took him on a wild 70MPH...

Boeing's Airborne Laser shot down by the DoD along with another sci-fi weapon

Kevin Hall

Friday, May 8, 2009 - 2:32am

We're never going to get to The Future at this rate. The Department of Defense is cutting two big sci-fi-ish projects in an effort to funnel its resources toward more practical research. Namely, both the Airborne Laser and the Multiple...

World's largest model rocket successfully launched

Monday, April 27, 2009 - 10:22am

The world's largest Saturn V model rocket has successfully completed its mission. On Saturday, the 36-foot-tall rocket streaked into the heavens, almost 40 years after its namesake blasted humans to their first moon walk. The $25,000 rocket traveled to...

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rockets stories

NASA's next big spacecraft will be a solar-powered electric rocket

It really is this easy to build your own rocket

This rocket ship house sure makes your house look boring

Galactic Suites space hotel is on course for a 2012 debut

Photo: Ares rocket's 'shock egg' in mind-blowing clarity

NASA's return to the moon 'unsustainable,' says review

NASA: Orion's escape system goes zero to 600 in 3.5 seconds, works during launch

Pulse-jet bike is far from safe

Boeing's Airborne Laser shot down by the DoD along with another sci-fi weapon

World's largest model rocket successfully launched

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