Elon Musk’s SpaceX dominates the news these days, but a host of oddballs involved in space exploration came before him.

A SpaceX astronaut mission like no other will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Here's what to know.

After leaving PayPal in 2000 with $180M, Elon Musk launched Tesla and SpaceX to innovate electric cars and Mars-bound rockets ...

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering debris from a Falcon 9 upper stage could have struck someone in Poland. God ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that the Starship rocket will make its maiden Mars flight by the end of 2026, with human ...

Why SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Arianespace made Fast Company's list of the most innovative companies doing work in space.

It retired the small rocket ... of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rockets. Exciting times at Relativity! We’ve completed the vehicle-level critical design review ...

Terran R is also anticipating reuse early in the program ... from the company’s first rocket, Terran 1. That vehicle was 85% built using wire arc additive design, which is very similar to ...

"The traditional NASA way involved many detailed reviews and design cycles before anything was built ... Farrar recalls 2008, when SpaceX struggled to launch its first rocket, Falcon 1. After three ...

The other consideration is -- in many cases, we want to see technology like demos of our design, so we can make ... samples returned until the early 2040s. Rocket Lab has submitted a bid that ...

Robert Zubrin talks about reducing the mass of SpaceX Starship by a factor of 5 for a Starboat mini-Starship. The linear dimensions would scale by the cube root of 1/5 ≈ 0.58. This gives a diameter of ...