The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

Once again, we're back with our annual power ranking of US launch companies. 2024 was the third year Ars compiled a list of the most accomplished rocket companies in the United States with the goal of ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lists the mission as Starlink 6-71. As of Sunday, SpaceX confirm ed they are targeting a three-hour window which opens at 12:21 p.m.. The SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper.

Kraft recalls laying bare the budget jeopardy faced by the shuttle. “We were totally incapable of meeting any sort of flight ...

By many accounts of those who served at NASA during Jimmy Carter's administration, he was viewed as the least supportive of U ...

A new environmental study is intended to support the continued increase of SpaceX launches from a California spaceport, but ...

As competition in the new space race ramps up with China, the United States is preparing to deorbit the International Space ...

President Jimmy Carter's impact on the U.S. space program honored in Florida where so many of the nation's space ambitions ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

If you're remembering back to NASA's legacy Space Shuttle, which launched from 1981 to 2011, that was a smaller rocket. It's dwarfed by these newcomers. According to NASA, it stood at only 184 ...