Every rocket launch is different and it takes a lot of people and safety checks to ensure that a 5.75 million pound rocket can safely launch into space. Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut and ...

Preparations for the second-ever launch of Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket are underway on Florida's Space Coast, as NASA's twin ESCAPADE probes await their mission to Mars.

SpaceX launched a rocket Wednesday morning that will send three missions into space. The Falcon 9 rocket carried two spacecraft for NASA and one for NOAA. Liftoff from Kennedy Space Center went as ...

NASA is not immune to the effects of a government shutdown if congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement before midnight Oct. 1 to prevent one.

A returned astronaut had a surprise when she gazed out of a passenger plane window and saw a rocket she had recently ridden. NASA spacewoman Anne McClain watched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rise into the ...

Virginia celebrated the opening of its new launch pad last month at Wallops Island, which marks the state’s role in the aerospace industry. Gov. Glenn Youngkin attended the ceremony to cut the ...

On the morning of Sept. 24, SpaceX will launch the latest solar science mission for NASA. Here's what to know before liftoff.

The upgraded Artemis II rocket ensures a smoother, safer ride for the astronauts on their highly anticipated lunar voyage.

Rocket Lab to sell common shares. The space company said Tuesday that it intends to raise up to $750 million by selling common shares, MSN reports. This new at-the-market program replaces a prior ...

Depending on weather and cloud cover, a Florida rocket launch from Cape Canaveral could be seen from Daytona, New Smyrna Beach to Vero and Fort Pierce ...

NASA once planned to launch the largest rocket ever designed - not from land, but from underwater! The Sea Dragon, a declassified 1960s project, was a massive 500-foot-tall rocket designed to launch ...

All of the original US senators who created and sustained NASA's Space Launch System rocket over the last 15 years—Bill Nelson, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Richard Shelby—have either retired or failed ...