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 ...

NASA and SpaceX made another attempt on Friday to send a crew up to the International Space Station (ISS) and begin the ...

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 ...