"Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly's mission design, fabrication, integration and test plans are all ...

In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...

The VAB does not feature in SpaceX's plans though. While it hosted the Space Shuttle after that final Saturn rocket rolled out, its future is all about the SLS.

At a glance, the rocket will have a classic profile, reminiscent of a launcher even older than the space shuttle: the Saturn V. Like Saturn, each SLS booster will fly just once, then be discarded.

And that was all more or less settled until last week when the two US senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, filed ...

SpaceX launched its third fleet of spy satellites in 8 days on Sunday, its tenth mission of the year in support of the ...

Pathfinder was returned to its position atop a space shuttle propulsion "stack" at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. A space shuttle is standing upright for the first time in ...

it's basically impossible to hide a rocket launch, particularly the launch of a space shuttle. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Journalists covering the space program before the ...

NASA's Space Shuttle successfully reached orbit during its first attempt in April 1981. The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969.

Known as the Rocket City, Huntsville has long been a focal point of US aerospace and defence. It is home to the Marshall Space Flight Centre – the second largest Nasa field centre in the US – where ...