A company developing a powerful new rocket engine has become the latest space enterprise to seek crowd-sourced funding.
Ad Astra Rocket Company, which is headed by a former NASA astronaut who shares the record for flights on the Space Shuttle, with seven trips into orbit, is working on advanced plasma propulsion technology.
But the $46,000 being sought through Kickstarter is not to help the company develop the engine. It will pay for the production of a documentary video to help spread the word about their innovative work.
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