Earlier this year, rocket scientists at NASA fired up an electromagnetic thruster powered by lithium metal vapor.

Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than ...

Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...

"The successful performance of our thruster in this test demonstrates real progress toward sending an American astronaut to ...

Drexel University alumna Moogega “Moo” Cooper, PhD, Planetary Protection Lead for the Mars rover Perseverance and Group ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

This chapter summarizes the studies that investigated the potential toxicity of jet-propulsion fuel 8 (JP-8), related fuels, and kerosene in humans and experimental animals. The 1996 National Research ...