( http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/aug/HQ_09-194_ALICE.html ) NASA, AFOSR Test Environmentally-Friendly Rocket Propellant WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, have successfully launched a small rocket using a ...
( http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/irve.html ) NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- A successful NASA flight test has shown that a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as ...
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/deltav/23928/ Riding an Energy Beam to Space The next advance in propulsion systems may employ an external light source. Wednesday, August 05, 2009 By Brittany Sauser ...