NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

NASA fired up RS-25 engine No. 20001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, ...

A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.

As kids, many of us dreamed of one day jetting into space and exploring the final frontier, but it seems even some adults just can't shake their obsession with space flight. In a year-end report(PDF) ...

The rise of the commercial space industry precipitated a steeper decline at Rocketdyne. Boeing sold the Rocketdyne division ...

When I was an aerospace engineer working on the NASA Space Shuttle Program, trust was mission-critical. Every bolt, every line of code, every system had to be validated and tested carefully, or the ...

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The engines, still attached to the rocket's first stage, had been purposely dropped into the Atlantic Ocean after they had flown 38 miles (61 kilometers) high and burnt through their fuel supply. NASA ...

According to officials with Redstone Arsenal, those loud noises are due to rocket engine hotfire testing.