This $50 rocket can break the sound barrier and travel more than a mile high
A cardboard craft that can satisfy the need for speed? Sign us up. Sputnik 1’s 98-minute jaunt around the planet in 1957 ignited a passion for space among amateur rocketeers that endures today. Models slake our thirst for thrust without billion-dollar budgets. But while their small combustible …
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NASA's chief says China is being 'very, very secretive' and pretending its space projects aren't linked to the military
NASA chief Bill Nelson accused China on Wednesday of secretly working on military projects in space. Nelson told lawmakers that NASA believes Beijing is masking these projects as civilian efforts. Nelson often warns of dire consequences if China reaches the moon first. The US aims to do so by …
NASA shared timeline for when $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid will be brought to Earth
NASA has shared the timeline for when the $10,000 quadrillion asteroid will be brought down to our planet. Last year, the space agency announced that …