The new space race doesn’t have a finish line — but it does have two very clear frontrunners. SpaceX and Blue Origin, the rocket companies founded by ...
The German Aerospace Center proposes the RLV C5, a partially reusable rocket concept designed to deliver over 70 tons to low Earth orbit, compared with SpaceX Starship’s capabilities.
In the summer of 2023, something happened that engineers had talked about for decades but few genuinely expected to see in ...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to the Artemis program on Friday morning, including an increased ...
United Launch Alliance (ULA)'s new Vulcan Centaur rocket debuted in January 2024 and now has four launches under its belt. On ...
Rockets like Artemis II are big and heavy. Here's how specialized crawler transporters safely move them from assembly bays to ...
NASA has at least another 8 miles of terrestrial travel to accomplish before it can take on a 600,000-mile trip to space.
NASA sent the Artemis II rocket back from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B to the Vehicle Assembly Building to fix a ...
The space agency revealed the latest problem on Saturday, just one day after targeting March 6 for humanity’s first flight to the moon in more than half a century.
Soon, four astronauts will launch on a mission to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The mission, called Artemis II, is the second mission — and first crewed mission — of ...
Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on ...
The powerful Vulcan faces its biggest test yet as it prepares to launch on its second national security mission from Florida. What is ULA's rocket?