Orbital manufacturing. Private space stations. Moon buggies. Exploring Mars. All are there, alongside the more humdrum (if more reliably profitable) businesses of building and servicing satellites.
The New Space Race Since the last landing on the Moon by Apollo 17 in 1972, men have not ventured into space further than near-Earth orbit. This can also be considered the date at which space ...
At a headquarters in Kent, Wash., engineers are assembling giant barrel-shaped sections of a rocket and two very different engines designed to make not just the booster but the upper stage of the ...