Engineering the launch vehicles that allowed America to achieve suborbital flight and, eventually, land on the Moon was no ...
SpaceX is working toward a Saturday, Oct. 18, launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. The launch, a mission to deploy Starlink satellites for Elon ...
The Mercury rocket marked America’s first steps into human spaceflight, but its very design limited how long its success could last. In this segment, we look back at how the Redstone and Atlas ...
A newly upgraded version of SpaceX’s Starship rocket suffered an apparent failure during a ground test early Friday in South ...
Rocket launch enthusiasts who enjoy watching giant spacecraft thunder into the sky from Southern California are in luck: SpaceX has potentially three missions within the next week scheduled to get off ...
Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...
Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was forced Sunday to postpone the anticipated launch of its ...
The lower half of the New Glenn rocket set down on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean after lifting a small NASA Mars mission ...
Liftoff will take place from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. California residents often gather near the launch site to watch the rocket get off the ground. SpaceX will also ...