A Saturn V rocket launches from Pad 39A on the Apollo 8 mission ... so its first launch unfortunately was the Challenger disaster of January 1986, killing Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe ...

The new crew needs to get to the International Space Station before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams can head home after nine ...

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 ...

Kennedy Space Center was built in the early 1960s for launching the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program. Originally, three identical launch pads were planned to be built: 39A, 39B and 39C.

Out in the Kazakh desert, the Russians were building an enormous causeway and two launch pads ... for rocket engines, and he found one in Nikolai Kuznetsov. In a Saturn V rocket engine, liquid ...

Engineers at NASA spent years developing the Saturn ... launch pad where it had been undergoing fuel loading tests when ...

(Updates with the latest information) SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is upright on its Kennedy Space Center's launch pad, waiting to take the next crew to the International Space Station and set the stage ...

Neither China nor the United States that once created the Saturn launch vehicle ... Russia will build a launch pad for the super-heavy carrier rocket at the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian ...