An curved arrow pointing right. NASA recently built a structure that will test rockets under the same stresses they will experience at launch. Take a look at this amazing time-lapse of it being built.

Special research test stands have been set up for this purpose. The oldest of these is P6, which was built in 1966 and consists of the two test cells P6.1 and P6.2. Originally, high-energy rocket ...

Stoke Space successfully hotfired its first-stage rocket engine on a new vertical test stand at the company’s Moses Lake, Wash., facility on Wednesday in what was called “a very big deal ...