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My Jet Engine Projects (Popularity: )
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet
How to build your own pulsejet or turbojet engine.

Ramjet/Scramjet Engine (Popularity: )
http://www.aviation-history.com/engines/ramjet.htm
Diagrams explaining how the engine works.

Pulse Detonation Engines (Popularity: )
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/pde.shtml
Describes the theory of how these engines work.

NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program (Popularity: )
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp
Seeks to discover ways to make interstellar flight possible.

HowStuffWorks: How Air-breathing Rockets Will Work (Popularity: )
http://www.howstuffworks.com/air-breathing-rocket.htm
Explains the concept behind rocket-based, combined cycle engines, including scramjets.

Pulse Detonation Wave Engines (Popularity: )
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum23.html
Theoretical operation of a PDWE.

Rocket Science 101 (Popularity: )
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/RocketScience101/RocketScience101.html
Interactive NASA feature lets you "assemble" a Delta II or an Atlas V rocket. Learn about the basic parts of these launch vehicles, how they are configured, and how they ...

Manned Missions to Mars (Popularity: )
http://www.androidpubs.com
Manned missions to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and all the outer planets are now possible thanks to a newly developed propulsion system.

Fuelling Interplanetary Travel (Popularity: )
http://www.ucar.edu/eo/staff/dward/sao/fit/index.html
Takes a look at the traditional and new propulsion technologies needed for space exploration. Also covers the basic concepts involved with interplanetary travel.

NASA In-Space Propulsion (Popularity: )
http://www.inspacepropulsion.com
Researching and developing aerocapture technology, electric propulsion, ion propulsion, solar sails, and other technologies.

Scientific American: The Way to Go in Space (Popularity: )
sciam.com
Engineers have no shortage of inventive plans for new propulsion systems that might someday expand human presence beyond Earth.

Theory for Gravitic Propulsion (Popularity: )
http://www.members.shaw.ca/mike.anderton
Discusses a theoretical method of propulsion, matter, energy, and gravitic effect.

From Stargazers to Starships (Popularity: )
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sintro.htm
Deals with the world of gravity: of massive planets and stars, and the way spaceflight is achieved despite their strong pull. Topics include astronomy of the Earth's motion in space ...

Manned Missions to Mars (Popularity: )
androidpubs.com
Manned missions to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and all the outer planets are now possible thanks to a newly developed propulsion system.

SpaceTethers.com (Popularity: )
http://www.spacetethers.com
Approaches the problem of lowering the cost to orbit by advocating the idea of a small air-launched suborbital RLV to get to an orbiting spinning tether.

How Hypersonic Planes Will Work (Popularity: )
http://www.howstuffworks.com/hypersonic-plane.htm
Discusses scramjet engines and the X-43A.

Caltech Explosion Dynamics Laboratory: Pulse Detonation Engines (Popularity: )
http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/EDL/projects/pde/pde.html
Research into the propulsive concept in which the combustion chamber is periodically filled with a reactive gas mixture, a detonation is initiated, the detonation propagates through the chamber, and the ...

Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory (Popularity: )
http://alfven.princeton.edu
Site facilitates communication and collaboration among the eight research sites participating in electric propulsion research under AFOSR sponsorship.

Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion Branch (Popularity: )
http://hapb-www.larc.nasa.gov
Performs research to advanced technology for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion systems for aerospace vehicles.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Popularity: )
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
"Do not go where the path may lead," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." That could be the motto of the ...