NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at 120 kilowatts, the ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at 120 kilowatts, the highest power level ever reached by a U.S. electric propulsion system. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission and its final test flight will last between 45 and 90 days while NASA engineers study ...

NASA has tested a lithium-fed thruster that could become a workhorse for future Mars missions, and the key milestone is not ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing is closer to understanding what went wrong with its astronaut capsule in orbit, now that testing is complete on a spare thruster here on Earth. Officials said ...

A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to ...

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner approaches the ISS on the Crew Flight Test mission June 6. Credit: NASA TV WASHINGTON — NASA and Boeing plan to keep the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft at the International ...

NASA and Boeing plan a final series of thruster tests of the CST-100 Starliner at the ISS before final reviews for its return to Earth. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA and Boeing will fire thrusters on ...

June 29 (UPI) --An initial eight-day Boeing Starliner test mission to the International Space Station will be extended indefinitely to test the spacecraft's thrusters. Test pilots Butch Wilmore and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Boeing is closer ...