While rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center are routine, relatively few are timed optimally to allow for viewing so ...

NASA Blue mach diamonds from the main engine nozzles and bright exhaust from the solid rocket boosters mark the successful ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket visible as a streak of light from bottom right to top left. Don Pettit / NASA Blue Origin launched its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for the first time last week, and ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA's space shuttle program saw its darkest day at the time, when seven astronauts lost their lives as Challenger disintegrated shortly after launch. One of them was high school ...

SpaceX has been at the forefront of the modern space industry, spearheading private-sector space exploration and technological advancements.

After another launch scrub for weather, Space Shuttle mission STS ... on the right SSME (engine #3) were high. (Photo Caption: An image in the Shuttle Independent Assessment Team (SIAT) report ...

Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final phase of their Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope ... while ISS crewmembers took high-quality photos of the TPS.

The space shuttle and International Space Station are set to launch onto dollar coins in celebration of the advancements made by two states. The United States Mint has released the designs of the ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...