While Blue Origin and Space X make headlines, NASA remains as a leader of academic space research. NASA’s research-driven mission and collaborations with private firms are advancing space technology.

Reusable rockets have reshaped the economics of spaceflight by dramatically reducing the cost of launching payloads into orbit. Traditional rockets were single-use vehicles that burned up or crashed ...

Sending anything to Mars is a much more difficult process than it seems. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union tried (and failed) in its first nine consecutive attempts, and the US was only able to succeed ...