Rocket Propellant

NASA's plan to return astronauts to the moon must pass a crucial test Saturday, with the agency planning an eight-minute test-firing of the SLS moon rocket in Mississippi.

Methylcyclopentadiene (MCPD) is an important monomer in the production of RJ-4 fuel, a high-energy-density rocket fuel, and various valuable products.

More than 50 years after its course correction failure, Surveyor 2's rocket booster seems to have reappeared.

From these nine men and nine women, NASA will select the astronauts who will land on the moon for the first time in 50 years.

Despite the setback, an elated Elon Musk says valuable data was collected.

1966 Surveyor 2 mission crashed into the Moon, but its spent rocket came home to Earth.

Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to send a prototype of the company's shiny stainless steel Mars rocket, Starship, miles high above South Texas on Tuesday in the first high-altitude test flight for the vehicle.

Firehawk Aerospace custom designs and manufactures high performance rocket engines powered by 3D printed rocket fuel.

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Now that it's connected to the ISS, SpaceX's first "operational" commercial mission is now poised to break a US record for longest human spaceflight.

After a 27.5 hour commute, Resilience and its crew are planned to dock to the…

There is nothing routine about space travel, something made clear Friday when the mission was thrown into doubt after Elon Musk tweeted that he had tested positive for the coronavirus twice and negative twice.

President Donald Trump ignited a months-long political battle in 2017 when he appointed Jim Bridenstine, a Republican congressman from Oklahoma, to run NASA.

NASA finds water on the moon, so dryland wasn't their destination. Nor was it their destiny.

Two new studies published October 26th in Nature reveal that water ice may be located in areas of the Moon that are easier to reach than we thought. That could be helpful as NASA aims to send astronauts back to the Moon for its Artemis program.

There may be far more water on the Moon than previously thought, according to two studies published Monday raising the tantalising prospect that astronauts on future space missions could find refreshment—and maybe even fuel—on the lunar surface.

The Moon was for a long time considered to be bone dry, with analyses of returned lunar samples from the Apollo missions showing only trace amounts of water. These traces were in fact ...

There are also plentiful patches of secret ice in "cold traps."

The discovery could forever change our relationship with our closest cosmic neighbor.