NASA and the Department of Energy have just tested a small fission nuclear reactor named KRUSTY (Kilowatt Reactor Using Stirling Technology) in the Nevada desert, in what could be a way to provide ...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Sunday that his company had “shifted focus” from taking humans to Mars to building a ...
Long before SpaceX, long before Apollo, NASA had already imagined something far more permanent — a fully self sustaining colony on Mars. The plan called for a fleet of massive spacecraft and a ...
Where Elon Musk talks openly about building a city on Mars, NASA has been careful to draw a line between exploration and colonization. The agency has long voiced a desire to send astronauts to explore ...