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

The rocket engines that powered earlier missions couldn’t meet the demands of modern spaceflight. Failures, near-misses, and structural fatigue pushed NASA toward a complete redesign. Reinventing the ...

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

Blue Origin has test fired its New Glenn rocket engine as it makes final preparations for the launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE mission involving twin Mars orbiters. The static test fire of the heavy-lift ...

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 ...

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 ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - NASA and L3Harris Technologies successfully conducted a full-duration hot fire test of a second RS-25 engine at Stennis Space Center in Hancock County. The engine will ...

HELSINKI — China conducted a rocket stage hot fire test Friday in the latest step in the country’s plans to land astronauts on the moon. A shortened Long March 10 rocket first stage test article fixed ...