they could turn the water into the hydrogen and oxygen commonly used to power space vehicles. Re-fuelling at the Moon could therefore bring down the cost of space travel and make a lunar base more ...

and because it is so cold, engineers ... U.S. space effort is on a sound propulsive track. The multistage Saturn boosters that will sling U.S. astronauts to the moon will also burn liquid hydrogen ...

This year will mark a turning point in humanity’s relationship with the moon, as we begin to lay the foundations for a ...

A scientific breakthrough in itself, the success also advanced China’s plan to put astronauts on the moon by 2030 and build a lunar base ... hydrogen for rocket fuel. “Unlike the U.S.-Soviet ...