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…
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…
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…
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…
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…