On Episode 177 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Michael Tice to talk about a possible ...

The Estes line of flying model rockets have inspired an untold number of children and adults alike, thanks in part to their ...

Amazon Prime Day has come and gone but there are still a few model rocket deals you can get that are worthwhile. While the annual Summer sales event has come to an end, many deals have carried over ...

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

Standing no more than about 70 feet tall, sounding rockets are much smaller than an average spacecraft that may launch on an orbital flight from major spaceports For comparison, SpaceX's famous ...

The flights are designed to study the coldest part of Earth’s atmosphere, known to be a “mixing ground" for weather patterns ...

Recent advancements in nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) technology could make future human missions to Mars significantly faster, potentially cutting the travel time in half compared to traditional ...