It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center. The super heavy rockets were built and used for ...

For now, it looks like NASA’s orange behemoth has a little life left in it. All the hardware for the Artemis II mission has ...

The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a ...

DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the Artemis III mission.

It is the single largest element for NASA's Artemis II mission, slated to ferry a crew of astronauts around the far side of ...

Despite the booster mishap, SpaceX confirmed the successful deployment of all 21 Starlink satellites. This mission marked the 20th orbital rocket launch from Florida's Space Coast this year.

Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months, have ...

Thankfully, SpaceX's Falcon 9 ship is on its way to the ISS and bring them home in a matter of days after the initial rocket ...

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The Space Shuttle was one of the most complex and ambitious spacecraft ever designed, pioneering reusable spaceflight and enabling decades of missions. With massive solid rocket boosters, advanced ...

Super Heavy rocket booster. After about 2 ½ minutes of firing, the Super Heavy booster separated as planned from the Starship’s upper stage, setting itself up for a successful landing within th ...

The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted body of the rocket hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers. The only ...