This is one for the history books. A baptism by fire crash course tutorial in space exploration, life skills and public speaking for grade 11 Cabecar high school students ( for whom Spanish is a ...

NASA has signed an agreement with Houston-based Ad Astra Rocket Co. that paves the way for commercialization of a promising advanced plasma rocket system that has evolved over the past 25 years. The ...

Ad Astra Rocket Facility, 2 p.m., Friday, June 22, 2012, Webster, Texas A promising rocket technology for a manned mission to Mars is the VASIMR advanced plasma propulsion system being developed in ...

At first glance, the most impressive thing about Franklin Chang-Diaz is his space flight experience. Having traveled 22 million miles over 1,269 hours on six shuttle missions, Chang-Diaz has logged ...

This article is part of Texas Monthly’s special fiftieth-anniversary issue. Read about the other icons that have defined Texas since 1973. Franklin Chang Díaz, a member of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, June 13 -- Two spacewalking astronauts performed surgery on the international space station's $600 million robot arm today, replacing one of its seven joints to fix what amounted to a ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - Scientists in Costa Rica have run a plasma rocket engine continuously for a record of more than four hours, the latest achievement in a mission to cut costs and travel ...