As World War II drew to a close, the Allies were eager to get their hands on one of the most technologically amazing yet ...

Designed to be a space “tugboat” for interplanetary payloads, the company states that it could chop travel time between planets by more than half. Nuclear power holds a lot of promise for ...

Rather than operating independently, these fusion-powered vehicles are designed to attach to larger spacecraft, towing payloads efficiently across vast interplanetary distances. Fusion propulsion ...

Robert Zubrin is best known for his advocacy of the manned exploration of Mars. Zubrin also had a design for interplanetary propulsion called ... Through a combination of the coating and space between ...

The Energia Rocket and Space Corporation is creating a new generation of spacecraft to replace the currently used Soyuz spaceships MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. A new-generation manned transport ...

Interplanetary probes were a constant in the tech news bulletins of the 1960s and 1970s. The Space Race was at its height, and alongside their manned flights the two superpowers sent unmanned ...

While chemical propulsion systems operate for only a few minutes, generating their thrust in this short period, electrical engines can run for weeks and even months, gradually accelerating a ...

Currently, the journey to get a manned mission to Mars is not necessarily a technological ... by China and Russia has the potential to significantly alter the course of interplanetary travel in the ...