A new type of rocket engine that could improve aircraft, spacecraft, and other transportation systems is being developed by private and public institutions such as NASA and the Air Force Research ...

Introduction -- Rocket engine fundamentals -- Nuclear rocket engine cycles -- Interplanetary mission analysis -- Basic nuclear structure and processes -- Neutron flux energy distribution -- Neutron ...

Rocket engineering is shifting from painstaking machining and welding to a world where engines and tanks emerge from printers as single, sculpted pieces of metal. Instead of treating 3D printing as a ...

The 12-foot-tall rocket roared off the pad, streaming higher and higher until it was barely more than a pinprick in the morning sky. At 9:15 a.m. on Sunday, October 12, the University of Colorado ...