The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7" family of boosters. The launch took place on Christmas Day when an R-7 ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is flying two creatively named missions out of the Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks. The first mission, designated as “Ground Imaging to Rocket ...

(They said America's Atlas ICBM, which extra stages added for space-probe purposes, could send a payload as big as that of the Russian rocket to the vicinity of the moon. They added, however ...

Ars Technica mentions another symptom of the Russian space program’s doldrums. Recently, the Russians launched a rocket from the R-7 family of launch vehicles for the 2,000th time. The R-7 ...

Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.

Eleventh-hour launch licenses that the Federal Aviation Administration just issued to Blue Origin and to SpaceX are setting the stage for space billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to supercharge ...

Astronauts launched in an Orion capsule atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket then will rendezvous with the Starship in orbit around the moon for the descent to the surface. NASA's contract requires ...

Russian family of rockets reaches 2,000th launch. The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7" family of boosters.

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander, originally scheduled to lift off in late 2024, is on its maiden voyage. The uncrewed spacecraft ...

The Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... accomplished by the US, the Soviet Union, China, India and Japan. Separately, SpaceX is also conducting its seventh orbital flight ...