Plasma Engine
The team led by
physicist and former
astronaut Franklin Chang
- tied in first place
with the most NASA
shuttle missions at 7
-successfully tested the
plasma engine that will
eventually take man to
Mars.
After years with the
Vasimr rocket in
blueprints, Chang and
his colleagues actually
tested the first stage
of the VX-200, the scale
prototype of their
spacecraft.
The test was conducted
at the Ad Astra Rocket
lab in Houston, Texas,
which is working on the
project with its similar
facility at Liberia,
Costa Rica. |
