On Aug. 1, 1968, NASA cancelled the production of its Saturn V rocket. The giant rocket was the only launch vehicle to have ever carried astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit, and it was the largest, most ...
Before the Space Launch System rocket of the Artemis program and SpaceX's Starship got here, the Saturn V rocket used in the Apollo Moon exploration program was humanity's largest and most powerful ...
It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.
SpaceX plans to launch 144 times in 2024 and has already launched 18 times in less than two months. The space shuttle had 133 successful flights from 1981 to 2011. SpaceX plans to launch at least 9 ...
After nearly 20 years in space and 13 years in orbit around Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft begins its grand finale, going where no craft has gone before. The final mission, according to NASA, ...
Blue Origin has pulled the curtain back on a super‑heavy variant of its New Glenn rocket, a stretched and up‑gunned launcher ...
After a nearly flawless maiden flight in November, the Saturn 5 moon rocket ran into so many difficulties during its second mission last month that NASA officials feared yet another unmanned flight ...