Scientists and engineers are diligently working on innovative concepts to make the next era of human spaceflight more ...

NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If ...

The DRACO project will test potentially revolutionary propulsion technology. NASA and the U.S. military plan to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Earth orbit in late 2025 or early 2026.

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) has stood as a promising potential alternative propulsion technology for decades. Chemical ...

That efficiency can be used to reach extremely high speeds. DRACO is intended to be a test bed for rapid-response rockets between Earth and the Moon, a military deterrent in space. There's only ...

There is no complete analysis of scaling up the supply chain. Angry Astronaut and NASA missed the problem of no facilities to test even the DRACO demonstration rocket. Angry Astronaut describes a ...

Oftentimes when somebody refers to a rocket, they're talking about one going into space, such as NASA's nuclear-powered Draco rocket, but that's not what we mean here. Rockets referred to here are ...