NASA and the Department of Energy have just tested a small fission nuclear reactor named KRUSTY (Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling Technology) in the Nevada desert, in what could be a way to provide ...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Sunday that his company had “shifted focus” from taking humans to Mars to building a ...
Our biggest obstacle might not be technological,” author Scott E. Solomon said of future life on Mars. “It might be us.” ...
Long before SpaceX, long before Apollo, NASA had already imagined something far more permanent — a fully self sustaining colony on Mars. The plan called for a fleet of massive spacecraft and a ...
The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese program, a commercially driven SpaceX campaign, and a methodical NASA ...
Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants Desorb and Weather after Exposure to Bioregenerative Life Support System Effluent"  ACS ...