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NASA wants to know how the launch industry’s chic new rocket fuel explodes

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants.

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NASA Hauls Its Repaired Moon Rocket From the Hangar Back to the Pad for an Early April Launch

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NASA’s Artemis II rocket back to launch pad after wind delay

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Artemis II rocket rolling to launchpad for NASA moon mission: When is launch date?

NASA began rolling the Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft to the launchpad shortly after midnight Friday Eastern Time in anticipation of a launch in early April.

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NASA's Artemis II SLS rocket rolls out to KSC pad ahead of moon mission

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Nasa hauls repaired Moon rocket back to pad ahead of planned launch in April

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Nasa's Moon rocket Artemis rolls back to pad for possible April launch

The move comes after a problem with the rocket's helium system forced Nasa to abandon a launch attempt in March and return the vehicle indoors for repairs.

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Nasa begins Artemis-II Moon rocket rollout, aims for April 1 launch

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Nasa returns moon rocket to pad and targets 1 April launch

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100 years after Goddard, liquid-fueled rockets power NASA’s moon push

One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. That flight lasted roughly 2.5 seconds. Today,

Scientific American

Modern rocketry turns 100—and NASA says the best is yet to come

A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy still holds for spaceflight’s future

The first liquid fueled rocket was launched 100 years ago today

Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket was small, only about 10 feet long, and the flight brief, lasting only 2.5 seconds,

Spaceflight Started 100 Years Ago in a Massachusetts Cabbage Patch

Before humanity sent satellites, telescopes, humans and weapons into space, Robert Goddard experimented with the first liquid-fueled rocket on his aunt’s farm.

Ars Technica

Fuel supply is a bottleneck for Starship—here’s how SpaceX will get around it

If SpaceX is going to fly Starships as often as it wants to, it’s going to take more than rockets and launch pads. First, there’s the sprawling factory that SpaceX has constructed at its Starbase location along the Gulf Coast in South Texas. The ...

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Testing Laughing Gas For Rocket Propellant

Nitrous oxide’s high-speed abilities don’t end with racing cars, as it’s a powerful enough oxidizer to be a practical component of rocket propellant. Since [Markus Bindhammer] is building a hybrid rocket engine, in his most recent video he built and ...

A scientist in Massachusetts launched the world's first modern rocket 100 years ago

One hundred years ago, Robert Goddard fired the first modern rocket. The launch, on what is now a golf course in Auburn, Massachusetts, paved the way for space exploration and much more.

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The One Technological Issue That Is Holding Nuclear Rockets Back

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade — but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip. This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of ...