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NASA aims to establish a long-term presence on the Moon and Mars through learnings of Artemis II.

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General Galactic, co-founded by a former SpaceX engineer, aims to eventually build a propellant station on Mars.

American space agency NASA says it fixed the problem that caused a hydrogen leak during the first wet dress rehearsal of the ...

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Gen. Jason Bartolomei, the AFRL commander, came out to visit just before I retired. He said, “You guys are strategically ...

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Plasma propulsion transforms an inert propellant – often hydrogen – into plasma, a superheated mix of ions and electrons.