prior to moving to the Advanced Boosters. The Space Launch System includes a mix of former Shuttle and Constellation (CxP) hardware, a winning design from numerous studies conducted by the ...

With the notable exception of the now retired Space Shuttle orbiters ... SpaceX has been landing and refurbishing their Falcon 9 boosters, with the end goal of operating their rockets more ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — An overnight SpaceX launch planned for early Saturday will use a booster that’s already flown to space 25 times. A Falcon 9 is targeting 1:14 a.m. carrying 21 Starlink ...

bringing deep space flight into the present. The two boosters will be taller than The Statue of Liberty and will weigh over 1.6 million pounds each. NASA plans to launch humans near the moon in ...

joining it to the two solid rocket boosters in essential work carried out inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. “The core stage is the largest component of the rocket ...

Finally, ground crews lowered the rocket between the Space Launch System’s twin solid rocket boosters already stacked on a mobile launch platform inside High Bay 3, where NASA assembled Space ...

The Starlink mission sent up 21 of the internet satellites for SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:35 p.m. The first-stage booster flew for the 22nd time making a recovery landing downrange ...

Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA's second Space Launch System rocket into position between the vehicle's two solid-fueled boosters.