He said the decision to roll Williams and Wilmore into Crew-9 was made by the subject matter experts at the commercial crew and ISS program level, not at a higher level like the White House.

Read more › Public niceties: Days after an ugly confrontation at the White House ... a vote in the House as early as Tuesday. That has thrust Washington’s fate into the center of a political ...

On Bob Crowley’s bare thrust stage, which uses platforms ... the attackers wheel on stage a huge rocket launcher, while Richard appears on the balcony, dressed in saintly white. At one moment he is ...

Rocket-powered takeoffs Despite its hulking ... These small rockets provided extra thrust to help them get airborne quicker or take off with heavier payloads. Setting world records The Mars ...

But throughout the final few hours of the countdown, SpaceX engineers were troubleshooting an apparent problem with one of two clamp arms that hold the Falcon 9 rocket to its launch support gantry.

These propulsion technologies combine improved thrust and fuel efficiency with ... a two-stage antimatter rocket would need more than 900,000 tons (815,000 metric tons) of fuel to make the journey ...

The company has made changes to the vehicle, part of which blew up over the Caribbean in January during the seventh test flight. An issue during the countdown halted Monday’s launch.

As those engines lift Starship off the launchpad, they generate 16 million pounds of thrust at full throttle. The upper part, also called Starship or Ship for short, looks like a shiny rocket from ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

Welcome to Edition 7.32 of the Rocket Report! It's true that the US ... Thankfully, there's a lot of launch action next week that might thrust us out of the abyss, even just for a moment.