The more powerful Atlas V 551 sent AEHF-4 closer to its final ... the US Air Force Research Laboratory – in April and NASA’s InSight mission to Mars in May. Atlas was scheduled to launch ...

United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket carried out its first mission for the United States ... For Thursday’s launch, Atlas flew in its 551 configuration, the most powerful version of this ...

While the Atlas V's remaining flights are limited in number − mostly reserved for Boeing Starliner missions for NASA − ULA's Vulcan rocket is slated to replace both the Atlas V and the now ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — Atlas V is a venerable ... OSIRIS-REx sample return mission to asteroid Bennu since 2002. But as soon as today (May 6) its task is to send two NASA astronauts on board Boeing ...