SpaceX, the commercial rocket company founded by Elon Musk, is about to launch Starship on its 10th flight since April 2023.

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NASA's Space Launch System rocket, reflected in the turn basin at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rolls out for a fourth attempt at a wet dress rehearsal on June 6, 2022. Credit: Trevor Mahlmann ...

The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again.

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Here’s how it works. The Artemis 1 Orion capsule, seen on the right, and its launch abort system on the left, inside a NASA facility in July 2021.(Image credit: NASA) ...

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An artist's conception of the Space Launch System at Cape Kennedy. NASA NASA on Thursday completed the eighth and final “green run” test of the core stage for the biggest rocket ever built ...

After years of preparation and two false starts, NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System has finally taken off and entered orbit. It’s a big win for the space agency — even as it assigns to ...

On Thursday, NASA’s new giant rocket, the Space Launch System, emerged out into the Florida air, embarking on a torturously slow 11-hour journey to its primary launchpad at Kennedy Space Center.

NASA declared the “wet dress rehearsal” (WDR), as the slew of tests is called, complete despite a hydrogen leak issue that caused launch controllers to halt the countdown at T-29 seconds ...