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Rockets Can Run On Toffee

Monday, October 12th, 2009 - 11:54:19 - Ehud Rattner

An engineer at the University of Hertfordshire helped to demonstrate to BBC 1’s Bang goes the Theory audiences recently that rockets can run on...

Crash Into the Moon With LCROSS on Friday

Friday, October 9th, 2009 - 12:48:48 - Anuradha Menon

Tomorrow morning you’ll have a rare opportunity to experience a live moon crash. At 7:31 a.m. EDT, NASA’s LCROSS satellite will send a rocket...

GOES-O Weather Satellite to Launch Today

Saturday, June 27th, 2009 - 14:23:03 - Anuradha Menon

Delta IV rocket launch teams scrubbed the launch of the GOES-O weather satellite because of thunderstorm cells within 10 miles of Launch Complex 37...

NASA Readies Plan B for Moon Rockets

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 - 12:38:40 - Anuradha Menon

NASA has a backup plan to launch crew and cargo to the moon, reduce the gap between shuttle retirement and a replacement ship's debut, and save...

Endeavour Prepares for June 13 Launch

Thursday, June 4th, 2009 - 16:22:14 - Anuradha Menon

NASA managers completed a review Wednesday of space shuttle Endeavour's readiness for flight and selected June 13 as the official launch date for the...

Getting Ready at Maker Faire

Saturday, May 30th, 2009 - 14:33:44 - Anuradha Menon

On Saturday, Make Faire returns to San Mateo, Calif. This year, organizers expect more than 80,000 people for the all-weekend event, the fourth time...

Russia Capsule Blasts off for Space Station

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 - 10:28:07 - Anuradha Menon

Three astronauts have blasted off for the International Space Station, where they are set to raise the station's crew to six for the first time...

Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space Propulsion...