Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...
The past decade has clearly demonstrated the superiority of private entrepreneurship over state-run spaceflight.
The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...
In 1962, NASA’s Flight Research Center in California approved the construction of a prototype lifting body aircraft, which became the M2-F1, also known as the “ Flying Bathtub .” The designation is ...
STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test ...
Blue Origin will launch its 37th New Shepard mission, NS-37, on December 18. The flight will carry six people beyond the Karman line, marking another commercial milestone.