KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The NASA Causeway bridge leading to and from the Kennedy Space Center is now complete, months ...

35 minutes: Rocket-grade kerosene and first-stage liquid oxygen loading begins ... 7 minutes: Falcon 9 begins engine chill prior to launch. 1 minute: Command flight computer begins final prelaunch ...

The Super Heavy booster (left) is seen alongside the Starship spacecraft, or upper stage (right), which is secured in the arms of the "Mechazilla" launch tower at the Starbase facility near ...

SpaceX pulled off the rocket booster catch maneuver during its eighth test flight but the Starship spacecraft exploded over ...

The Starship craft will ignite its own engines ... section of the vehicle, near a tank that holds super-chilled liquid oxygen, or LOX, a type of rocket propellant. That leak likely led to an ...

Terran R is a shift from the company’s first rocket ... stored in same-sized tanks. With high-pressure nitrogen supplementing, the engine uses gaseous hydrogen and oxygen to jumpstart the ...

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 called off its attempt to launch its Starship rocket on March 3 It was intended ... the rear of the ship between the ship's liquid oxygen tank and heat shield. Two minutes after that ...

This mission’s goals include an attempt to reignite a Starship engine in space ... near a tank that holds super-chilled liquid oxygen, or LOX, a type of rocket propellant.

On Monday evening, several unspecified issues related to the 403-foot ... liquid oxygen tank. The resulting buildup sparked a flurry of fires that took out almost all the rocket's engines ...