Robert Spiers is UD’s first graduate student to win NNSA Stewardship Science fellowship
Some may look for the easiest, quickest path forward. That would not be Robert “Robbie” Spiers, who is a doctoral student at the University of Delaware.(more…)
Human travel to Mars has long been the unachievable dangling carrot for space programs. Now, astronauts could be a step closer to our nearest planetary neighbor through a unique manipulation of nuclear fusion, the same energy that powers the sun and stars.
University of Washington researchers and scientists at a Redmond-based space-propulsion company are building components of a fusion-powered rocket aimed to clear many of the hurdles that block deep space travel, including long times in transit, exorbitant costs and health risks. (more…)