NASA launched the Artemis II mission, which will carry humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its ...

NASA's powerful Launch Abort System, designed to outrun an exploding rocket, is the result of years of work from scientists ...

Commercial launch providers continue to advance propulsion technology with a renewed focus on liquid oxygen and methane propelled rockets and spacecraft. As systems grow in scale, carrying millions of ...

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