There’s a reason why a rocket has to go so fast to escape Earth. It’s about gravity – something all of us experience every moment of every day. Gravity is the force that pulls you toward the ...

The milestone came five days after the Blue Ghost completed a maneuver, the trans lunar injection, meant to allow it to escape Earth's gravitational ... a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the lander ...

Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...

Stoke's rocket is for now called Nova ... and to return back to the launch pad after helping its cargo escape Earth's gravity. The engines are of the full-flow, staged-combustion (FFSC) variety ...

But it has the considerable disadvantage of requiring a lot of energy to escape Earth's gravity—it takes ... typically the heavier component of rocket fuel. And a variety of people have figured ...