Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefly Aerospace grabbed headlines in 2025 when its Blue Ghost lander became the first by a commercial company to stick its moon ...

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is planning its first rocket launch from California in nearly a year. The Alpha rocket launch is scheduled Monday, March 9, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Californians are likely used to seeing SpaceX's Falcon 9 thundering into the sky and soaring overhead, but another rocket is soon ...

Robert Goddard, a Massachusetts-born physicist, launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket on this date 100 years ago. It was not an overly impressive flight. The rocket, fueled by gasoline and ...

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is planning its first rocket launch from California in nearly a year. The Alpha rocket launch is scheduled Monday, March 9, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

On March 16, 1926, American physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket was small, only about 10 feet long, ...

Apollo 11 first landed astronauts on the Moon in 1969, but the journey to the lunar surface actually began 43 years before, in snowy Massachusetts. Exactly 100 years ago, on March 16, 1926, Robert H.

The upcoming test flight, dubbed "Stairway to Seven," is the seventh for the Alpha rocket. Following the mission, Firefly will debut a new, taller version of Alpha for flight 8. The company also ...