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How Oldsmobile’s Rocket V8 changed Detroit engineering

The Oldsmobile Rocket V8 did more than make one model quick in a straight line. It forced Detroit’s engineers to rethink how ...

NASA’s Next Moon Rocket Runs on Shuttle Engines—Here’s the Story Behind Each One

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.
The Space Race on MSN

What the history of rocket engines reveals about human progress

For centuries, rocket engines evolved alongside war, science, and human ambition. From primitive gunpowder weapons to the engines that carried astronauts to the Moon, progress was driven by necessity ...

Russia Is Building a Plasma Engine to Get Humans to Mars in 30 Days

Plasma engines could be the future of human space travel, and Russia’s “manetoplasma rockets” have the most ambitious travel goals ...
Orlando Sentinel

With SLS rocket future uncertain, L3Harris still cranking out engines

While NASA’s Artemis program may ultimately abandon the Space Launch System rocket, for now, Melbourne-based L3Harris is pushing forward with the manufacture of the powerful rocket’s core stage ...
Gizmodo

Gizmodo Science Fair: A Rocket Engine That Turns Controlled Explosions Into Thrust

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the speed of sound. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Venus Aerospace is a ...