A revolutionary nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) system is being developed to cut Mars travel time ... radiator panels that can be assembled in space. Instead of forcing a massive radiator ...

Inside, his engineers ... or body of the spaceship, rolled through the tent's flaps months ago - this would mean a build time of about 18-24 months. By comparison, NASA's space shuttle orbiters ...

“The thought of building on Mars captures imaginations in a new way. It makes people listen,” he adds. “It’s also an opportunity for us, as civil engineers, to showcase what we can do for our ...

(The space-launch industry mostly relies on single-use rockets that crash back to Earth after launching a payload into orbit.) In SpaceX's fervor to build ... engineers will probably gut the ship ...

One of the biggest goals in space exploration is getting humans to the distant planet, Mars. However ... ‘We’re going to build this vehicle in space. How do we do it? And what does the ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...