On July 3, 1969, an unthinkable event unfolded at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, as the Soviet N1 rocket, a colossal machine designed to send astronauts to the moon, exploded with ...

Engineers discovered the leak during a routine seven-second “hot fire” test of the Falcon 9 rocket’s booster stage, about 12 hours prior to the launch time.

An explosion occurred at the Serbian Krušik ammunition factory, just one day after Russia accused it of supplying weapons to Ukraine. The Serbian outlet N1 reported on this. In the morning, at around ...

The untested Soviet N1 rocket had the most powerful first stage ever built. Serious faults with its thirty engines would result in the largest man-made non-nuclear explosion ever.

Not long after, the Museum commissioned Gianakos to build two additional display models: a 1/48th-scale model of the 1960s Soviet N1 moon rocket, built for the Space Race exhibit hall in 1996; and ...

The Starship's many engines are isolated from each other, preventing the risk of one engine failure causing failure of all as in the case of the Soviet Union's N1 rocket, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said ...

The massive thrust needed to launch SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket creates a lot of noise. But is it the loudest rocket ever?

Russia has developed a new rocket and a new launch site as it considers a lunar research program. After two aborted launches, the Angara-A5 was successfully test-launched.

Russia on Thursday test-launched its Angara-A5 space rocket for the first time from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East, successfully putting a test load in low orbit as part of an effort to ...

Russia's launch of a heavy-lift rocket from the Vostochny spaceport was canceled two minutes before it was planned to occur due to a failure of the pressurization system.