On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...
For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...
NASA’s powerful Launch Abort System — literally designed to outrun the debris from an exploding rocket and save the lives of ...
A giant rocket’s tower of flame lifted three Americans and one Canadian at 6:35 p.m. Eastern on the first crewed journey that ...
The full Moon is seen behind NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, standing atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, at NASA's Kennedy ...
At 5:15 a.m. ET Friday, Feb. 13, 2026 — a Friday the 13th — four crew members from three space agencies, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12, launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Liftoff ...