Embarking from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the 11 million-pound (5 million kilograms) stack will be transported at a speed of about 1 mph (1.6 km/h along a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) route — a journey that will take up to 12 hours and be streamed live on NASA's Youtube channel.

The maiden flight of the Ceres 2, a new model of solid-propellant carrier rocket, built by Beijing-based private rocket maker Galactic Energy, failed on Saturday afternoon. The rocket blasted off at 12:08 pm at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region,

A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.

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