Less than a century ago, astronomers relied entirely on ground-based observations to further scientific study. Today, descendants of that first liquid-fueled rocket provide eyes on cosmic phenomena, ...

Conceived not long after the first Chevy small blocks hit American streets, the RL10 was the type of rocket engine you could ...

Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust backward fast enough to push itself forward. The person who first turned ...

Go back a generation of development, and excepting the shuttle-derived systems, all liquid rockets used RP-1 (aka kerosene) for their first stage. Now it seems everybody and their dog wants to fuel ...

SpaceX has performed a “wet dress rehearsal” of its Starship rocket ahead of the next major test flight of the Mars-bound spacecraft. The rocket and its booster were filled with liquid oxygen and ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is the H-1 liquid-fuel rocket ...

The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts. Colleen Anderson Robert Goddard, an American physicist and inventor, built many of his early rockets at his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico.

Solid-fuel rockets are the dream weapons of military rocketeers. They have no pumps or valves to go wrong and are always ready to fire. Their big trouble is that they are harder to control than liquid ...

The dream fuel of rocket engineers is liquid hydrogen. It develops more thrust per lb. than kerosene, the standard ingredient for liquid-fuel rockets. But because of its low boiling point ( — 423° F.) ...