The space agency is aiming to use the Starship spacecraft, the upper stage of SpaceX’s launch system, as a moon lander that would ferry them from the Orion spacecraft — which launches atop SLS ...

Ever wondered how to fly a spacecraft? Well, you’re in luck then, as NASA has just shared a video with lots of juicy details on how to fly the Orion spacecraft. Orion has already traveled around ...

In the late 1950s Dyson worked on Project Orion, which aimed to build a manned spacecraft that could go to Mars and the moons of Saturn. Instead of using nuclear reactors to spew superheated ...

See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / ...

In other words, it has the capability to one day power a nuclear rocket that could fire humans into deep space at unprecedented speeds. NASA and other organizations have long looked at nuclear ...

Today, spacecraft propulsion ... with nuclear propulsion technology experiments. Nuclear pulse propulsion was first developed ...