Two weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union launched its Saturn V rival, the N1, and watched it detonate in one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever recorded. Using declassified ...

Rockets like Artemis II are big and heavy. Here's how specialized crawler transporters safely move them from assembly bays to ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1917, Germany announces it will wage unrestricted submarine warfare against all ships, including passenger carriers, in war-zone waters. In 1929, the Soviet ...

Cape Canaveral is no dusty history tour, despite the consecrated status this oceanside resort area holds as the birthplace of American spaceflight. The Space Coast, as it’s often called, is not just ...

Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is accustomed to getting makeovers. It got another one Wednesday with the removal of the Crew Access Arm used by astronauts to board their ...

I’ve read that the planned crewed Mars missions will take six months or two years to arrive. Which is it? Could a longer trip be due to the heavy payload? Our rovers took only eight to nine months to ...

Most people know Jeff Bezos as a tech titan and owner of Amazon. But the businessman is also an adventurer — exemplified by his aerospace company, Blue Origin and his 2021 suborbital space flight. But ...

SpaceX's path to launching its massive Starship rocket from Florida's Space Coast passed another hurdle Friday after the Federal Aviation Administration released results of its nearly two-year long ...

SpaceX received a "finding of no significant impact" from the FAA for new Starship launch trajectories from its Texas Starbase, moving closer to a license modification for orbital flights over the U.S ...

Lights illuminate NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday Jan. 17, 2026. In the coming days ...