Rockets
A vehicle or craft propelled through air or space by exhaust from a rocket engineWatch This Space
Attempts by small space companies to win NASA contracts are as perennial as Lucy, Charlie Brown, and the football.
January 2006 |
By Geoffrey Little
Star Power
The plasma rocket, says U.S. astronaut Franklin Chang-DÃaz, is the propulsion technology of the future.
March 2004 |
By Beth Dickey
'It's All About Fire, Smoke, and Noise'
You know those little rockets made of wood and glue that you can stuff a motor in and launch from the field next door? These aren't them.
January 2004 |
By Preston Lerner
The Rest of the Rocket Scientists
Some went west. This is the story of the ones who went east.
September 2003 |
By Anatoly Zak
What's a Scud?
The Scud missiles causing so much anxiety in the world today are Soviet designs that originated in a weapon developed by the Nazis.
May 2003 |
By Bruce Berkowitz
White Elephant
How the Soviet Buran space shuttle helped the United States win the cold war.
January 2003 |
By Tom Harpole
The Rocket Ships
Tracking launches from Cape Canaveral required old boats and iron guts.
January 2002 |
By Dan Kovalchik
Riding the Titan II
Riding the tip of a 100-foot burning cylinder whose useful life is less than your average Marlboro is something you don't forget, even after three and a half decades.
September 1998 |
By D.C.Agle
H.M.S. Moon Rocket
In the 1930s, Arthur C. Clarke and friends designed their own lunar mission.
March 1997 |
By Tony Reichhardt
The Big Creek Missile Agency
The short story that became the movie October Sky.
March 1995 |
By Homer H. Hickam Jr.
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