Musk wrote. The test wasn't a total botch, though. SpaceX managed to successfully complete the rocket booster return and catch at the launch pad for the second time ever. The booster was caught ...

Morton has worked for pass-heavy offenses and for a run-oriented coach like Harbaugh. As an OC, he didn’t skew too far in either direction, showing solid balance despite a lack of talent in the ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year ...

Disintegration of the vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB ... had known since 1977 that contractor Morton-Thiokol’s design of the SRBs contained a ...

Just minutes after the rocket launched, its booster made its planned return to the ground and after momentarily hovering over the launchpad, it was spectacularly caught between two giant ...

The 177-foot-tall twin solid rocket boosters provide more than 75% of the total SLS thrust during liftoff, the agency says. Advertisement The timeline for the delay-plagued Artemis moon landing ...

At the time of the shuttle explosion, Boisjoly, who was employed as a technical troubleshooter at Morton Thiokol, was one of five engineers who had been charged with solving the joint seal problems ...

What Happened: Following separation from the rocket’s second stage, the booster that supported the Starlink mission landed back on Earth, enabling the company to reuse it for another mission.

Here’s how it works. A Chinese commercial space launch company is continuing its success with a small solid rocket ahead of a more ambitious launch later this year. The Ceres-1 four-stage solid ...