NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

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The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

With Voyager 2 in the background, John Casani holds a small U.S. flag that was sewn into the spacecraft's thermal blankets ...

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This was soon followed by: why? And so I've spoken with several people on background, both from the political and space spheres, to get a sense of what is really happening here.

Instead, from Artemis V onwards NASA will rely on newly-built powerplants of this kind. And here is the first newly-built RS-25 Space Shuttle engine that is not meant to be used on the Space Shuttle.

On Jan. 28, 1986, a family from Detroit watches the Challenger from Cocoa Beach, Fla., cheering and clapping, photographing themselves with the shuttle in the background, not knowing that the ...

After working to improve the booster design and creating new management practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

After working to improve the booster design and creating new management practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

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.

Currently listed as launching no earlier than 1 a.m. Friday per the Space Coast Office of Tourism, Blue Origin's brand new orbital rocket promises to put on quite a performance when it launches.