The Space Shuttle was a groundbreaking achievement in aerospace engineering—combining the power of a rocket with the ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle ... after a failure in the shuttle’s right solid rocket booster. Americans were well ...

The most recent addition is the sixth of the 10 motor segments in the Artemis II Space ... booster configuration, with assembly of the core stage to follow. The 177-foot-tall twin solid rocket ...