Boeing will use United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets for initial test flights of a proposed commercial manned capsule designed to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station in the post ...

Commercial rocket and crew capsule will be made of pieces from other programs. This is fantastic news. It's nice to see the space launch industry grow again. For a while, it looked like Lockheed ...

It’s super-simple to fly and uses two small but powerful hydrogen peroxide motors mounted at the tips of the rotor. The engines are small, just 8 inches long 1.5 pounds apiece. But don’t be ...

Today, rockets are still flown mainly by computers, which can monitor their complex systems and make adjustments far quicker than their human cargo. Oh yeah, this is a fail. Paulo Lozano, MIT ...

In fact, British researchers had noted that the V-2 rocket was almost large enough to carry a man in a small capsule. Putting these two facts together, British researcher H.E. Ross realized that a ...

"We cannot operate rockets without computers," says Paulo Lozano, a rocket scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computers also play a central role in the design and testing of new ...