NASA Science News for May 4, 2007
NASA-supported scientists and engineers have successfully tested a methane-powered rocket engine. The firing was not only remarkably beautiful (a must-see movie is featured in today's story) but also may herald a new type of spacecraft that one day roams the outer solar system gathering fuel from planets and moons that it visits.
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...htm?list160573
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