White Rocket How all U.S. Air Force pilots since 1968 have met their Mach. ... 14 feet long, weighing 4,000 pounds, and developing 18,000 pounds of thrust with afterburning; ...

The 156-foot-long five-segment solid rocket motor produced upwards of 4 million pounds of thrust during the test.

Engineers didn't immediately acknowledge the issue during that broadcast, apart from one controller uttering "Whoa," followed ...

Utah has a significant role, being the "factory" for the propulsion systems used by the SLS rocket. The new booster rocket ...

NASA followed last week's low-key engine test with the test-firing of a solid-fueled booster at Northrop Grumman's rocket ...

NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If the Trump administration gets its way, NASA's Space Technology Mission ...

a black and white rocket launches into the night sky, the thrust from its engines casting light on the launch pad. SpaceX has launched one Bandwagon mission already — Bandwagon-1 , which sent up ...

NASA built a new mega-rocket for the next lunar astronaut era, and it launched for the first time on Wednesday. The Space Launch System (SLS) is 17 years and an estimated $50 billion in the making ...

NASA’s most powerful rocket ... The gigantic orange-and-white ... Island as four rocket engines and two solid-fuel boosters—the largest ever built—create up to 8.8 million pounds of thrust.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the towering launch vehicle known for its boosters’ aerial acrobatics and synchronized landings when returning to Earth, took to the skies Sunday, delivering ...