The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together ... converted from the Space Shuttle Program, and the two boosters provide 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.

On a day when tens of millions of people around the world watched two American astronauts safely repatriated by a rocket flown by ... thing happened to the Space Shuttle program: because we ...

SpaceX makes history with the first rocket booster landing Developing the ... 9 was “totally different” to riding NASA’s Space Shuttle and that the experience was somewhat rougher than ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

The head of Poland’s space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory.

ULA's Vulcan rocket has been certified by the US Space Force for national security ... was an issue inside the nozzle on the solid rocket booster. Unlike SpaceX Falcon 9 — which is fully liquid ...

On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center mated together ... of the core stage are twin five-segment solid rocket boosters, which were earlier stacked on the same ...

NASA’s much-anticipated Artemis II mission has experienced multiple delays in recent years, with the agency currently targeting no earlier than February 2026 for a flight that will send four ...

Finally, ground crews lowered the rocket between the Space Launch System’s twin solid rocket boosters already stacked on a mobile launch platform inside High Bay 3, where NASA assembled Space ...