SpaceX will be targeting Wednesday launch for NASA’s IMAP mission. IMAP is a NASA heliophysics mission that will map the boundaries of the heliosphere. Liftoff is targeted for 7:30 a.m Wednesday E.T.

NASA is preparing to launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Researchers at Ohio State University say they’ve reached a new milestone in nuclear propulsion that could dramatically speed up human missions to Mars.