Texas Monthly – The Astronaut Who Might Actually Get Us to Mars
We like to tell stories—often in blockbuster films and children’s books—that dramatize a direct path from the initial spark of an idea to its realization. Decades of hard…
Space Angels- Rocket Science: Solar-Electric Systems and In-Space Propulsion
Space industry devotées will remember a short-lived NASA program called the Asteroid Redirect Mission, or ARM. The goal of the ARM was to send a robotic envoy to…
ARS Technica – NASA’s plasma rocket making progress toward a 100-hour firing
Almost everyone recognizes that if humans are truly to go deeper into the Solar System, we need faster and more efficient propulsion systems than conventional chemical rockets. Rocket…
Forbes – A Plasma Rocket Engine May Get Us To Mars In...
Born the son of Chinese and Costa Rican parents and with just $50 in his pocket, Franklin Chang Diaz came to the U.S. to do his undergraduate studies…
Bloomberg – Space Junk Blocks Our Way to the Stars
Danger lurks in Earth’s orbit as thousands of rogue objects speed around the planet—and you can’t exactly call a guy with a truck to come sweep it all…