Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors ...

From the first Mercury missions to today’s commercial crew flights, the United States has repeatedly turned to Florida’s ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

SpaceX is preparing for its second rocket launch of November from Southern California. The Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch a government weather satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base. This ...

SpaceX is planning to launch its Falcon 9 rocket after midnight from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

The mini-satellite, named 3UCubed, was built over 5 years by students at Sonoma State, Howard and the University of New ...

As private companies race to make spaceflight routine, Earth’s upper atmosphere has become an unintended testing ground. Each launch is a triumph of human ingenuity, but behind that brilliance lies a ...

Rockets launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, have been seen as far as Myrtle Beach or Philadelphia. People in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama may ...

The Redstone engine is one of the most significant developments in US rocket technology. This collection consists of 36 pages of 17 x 11 inch schematic drawings of the Redstone launch vehicle's ...

SpaceX is working toward a Thursday, Nov. 6, launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. The mission is to deploy a batch of Starlink internet ...