KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon — the rocket ...
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The rocket engines that powered earlier missions couldn’t meet the demands of modern spaceflight. Failures, near-misses, and structural fatigue pushed NASA toward a complete redesign. Reinventing the ...
The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft successfully launched this morning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with NASA astronaut Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev ...
In the sixties and early seventies, space was all the rage with the Cold War competition to determine who would walk on the moon first, America or the USSR. As such, model rocketry was booming. Marc ...
Imagine this scenario: you have an important space telescope that’s rapidly sinking in altitude, slated to crash down to Earth next year unless you can nudge it back up. Arizona-based private space ...
At a rocketry club’s monthly launch, some of the projectiles flew as high as 4,500 feet, carrying onboard cameras, GPS trackers and altimeter-activated parachutes. At a rocketry club’s monthly launch, ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. It was only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos’ company ...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket just launched a small trial of the kind of space agency envisioned by Jared Isaacman, the tech billionaire and private astronaut whom President Donald Trump has ...
Blue Origin launched its second heavy-lift New Glenn rocket Thursday, putting two small NASA satellites onto a long, looping course to Mars to learn more about how the sun has slowly blown away the ...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket lifting off near Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday. Photo: Joe Skipper/Reuters Blue Origin took crucial steps toward its space-development goals on Thursday, launching ...