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The US space agency NASA is building a new type of rocket propulsion which make people to be able to reach Mars in just 39 days instead of six months, as it has judged! As a partner in this project, NASA has selected a Texas company, "Ad Astra Rocket...

How does one go about making contact with two veteran NASA technicians who were raised and educated in Costa Rican public schools and have contributed to some of the most important space missions of the past quarter century? In my case, it was a vacation...

The recent crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and explosion on launch three days earlier of an Antares rocket further underline the dangers of inserting nuclear material in the always perilous space flight equation—as the U.S. and Russia still plan...

By Karl Grossman. The recent crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and explosion on launch three days earlier of an Antares rocket further underline the dangers of inserting nuclear material in the always perilous space flight equation—as the U.S...

Photograph by Nathan Lindstrom The man who wants to change the future of space travel drives a 1983 Volkswagen Jetta. Rusted and worn, the silver-coloured beater gets Franklin Chang Díaz from A to B, but he also finds it useful for making a point. Some...