space travel

NASA selected SpaceX to develop the first commercial human lander that will carry the next two American astronauts to the moon as part of the Artemis program. The Space Launch System rocket will launch four astronauts aboard the Orion…

Travel to Mars may be closer than we think, based on work at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). PPPL’s Principal Research Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi, wrote and published a paper detailing the…

Fuel storage and transport is a major limiting factor in space travel, relegating travel to short trips when large amounts of cargo are to be moved. Early fuel bladder designs included round balloons for liquid hydrogen, which gave way to…