The Apollo 11 astronauts used ... and was responsible for accelerating the rocket through the upper atmosphere. Like the first stage, much of the second stage's mass was taken up by fuel ...

For the Skylab mission, the rocket flew in a two-stage configuration ... mission. The second crewed mission – Skylab 3 – was commanded by another former member of the Apollo 12 crew in ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket ... stage was lifted from the transfer aisle into High Bay 1 for stacking on the Mobile Launcher (ML). A couple of weeks later, the S-II second ...

SpaceX's Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk's rocket program after a failure under ...

Seattle's Museum of Flight brings its collection of space artifacts up to the present day with a Blue Origin BE-3U rocket ...

Seven minutes later, Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, returned to Starbase for a dramatic catch by the launch tower's "chopstick" arms. It was the third time that SpaceX has ...

The second attempt by Intuitive Machines to land on the moon and the eighth test of the SpaceX Starship, proved an old adage: ...

The Falcon 9 rocket is designed to transport people and cargo into space and then safely reenter Earth’s atmosphere. However, at 4:46 a.m. local time Wednesday, the second stage of the rocket ...

Relativity Space announced it has begun production on the Terran R rocket aiming for a late 2026 launch from Cape Canaveral while also switching up CEOs.

One of the largest machines ever built, the 363-foot rocket was as tall as a 36-story building. Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 ...

The Nixon administration's decision to end the Apollo program ... hydrogen-oxygen second stage, allowing a wider, 5.2-meter-diameter (17-foot) payload fairing. The rocket can carry about 7,000 ...