I’m a regular visitor of www.SPACE.com – a website about anything related to space and technology. Recently they have this article which I find to be very very interesting. According to the story, NASA just opened its new “Propulsion Research Center” whose goal is to develop new and unique propulsion systems for space. Some of their ideas are nuclear propulsion (fission and possibly fusion), electric arc stuff, new generations of the ion engine, and antimatter drives. What I find most amusing however is the idea of putting up a giant slingshot in space. They call it the Momentum-Exchange/Electrodynamic-Reboost (MXER) Tether System. Read the rest of this entry »