The high cost of launching and the need to minimize the mass sent into space were the main drivers of mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP), In-Situ ...

How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ...

An Air Force test pilot, a Space Force officer, and a Marine Corps F/A-18 pilot were named to the crew of a NASA Mars simulation mission.

A test pilot from Edwards Air Force base has been selected for a yearlong NASA Mars mission simulation to study long-term ...

HAMMOND — With the idea of a manned Mars mission coming ever closer to reality, educators from around the country gathered at Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana this week to learn the ...

It is probably one of the most frequently asked questions about the future of space exploration: Will a human ever set foot on Mars? Despite America’s current (temporary) lack of a vehicle capable of ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- One of the biggest problems astronauts will encounter on a mission to Mars is the harmful effects of radiation in space, a University of Iowa surgeon said. The amount and type ...

In 2021, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab successfully launched the first powered flight on another planet with the Ingenuity drone helicopter, co-developed with AeroVironment, Inc. Now, the two are ...