The rocket in question was driven by a powerful Russian engine unlike any ever built in the States. Although this particular engine was new, the design dated back to the space age. By the early ...

We take a look at rocket evolution and just how far we've come in the last several decades as well as where we could be heading in the future. You can watch the landing on the SpaceX webcast.

In the early 1990s the Soviet Union, the enemy that fueled the development of space-based anti-ICBM weapons, fell, and with it so did America's desire to spend a lot of money for the rocket and ...

The first launch of the Energiya rocket took place on May 15, 1987 at the Baikonur space center. The Energiya became the first Soviet rocket that used hydrogen in the rocket’s main stage.