The second flight of a Japanese small launch vehicle failed when the vehicle lost control a couple minutes after its Dec. 17 liftoff.

But the Republican leader was deprived of the chance to see the descending first stage caught in the launch tower's "chopstick ... time in space and trialing new heat shield materials.

SpaceX launched its sixth Starship rocket Tuesday, proving for the first time that the stainless steel ship can ... of a fiery launch or landing, the engine relight unlocks a new phase of Starship ...

Though the world’s most powerful rocket lifted off its launch pad exactly as scheduled and met several other objectives, SpaceX failed to repeat the feat of catching Starship’s lower-stage ...

US President-elect Donald Trump flew in for the launch, in the latest sign of a deepening ... observing the spacecraft’s descent. Among the new objectives: igniting one of the spacecraft ...