Astronaut Don Pettit, who has been at the International Space Station since September, is set to land Saturday in Kazakhstan ...

These spacecraft, buttoned up on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, are the first of more than 3,200 ...

Dr. Jay Bernard of the Aerospace Company called his insurance adjuster. Skeptical, the agent could not believe what the doctor was telling him: his car had been hit by a rocket. That afternoon, the ...

NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...

It looked like a scene from an action movie: lightning flashed in the distance as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. "Go for launch," a voice on the SpaceX ...

The Space Systems Command has awarded National Security Space Launch, or NSSL, Phase 3 Lane 2 contracts with a cumulative amount of $13.68 billion to three companies. The firm-fixed-price ...

Blue Origin said it plans to provide a livestream of the launch, with details to soon be released. Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, New Shepard can hold up to six ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—The U.S. Space Force’s next GPS III satellite has arrived at Cape Canaveral SFS ahead of a planned launch no earlier than next month, the service announced April 7.

Liftoff was tentatively set Wednesday, April 9, according to the space agency. Weather permitting and depending on cloud cover, this historic rocket launch from Florida’s Space Coast could be ...

The launch was the first since a California Starlink launch that ended up with a second-stage failure that grounded ... a veteran of three space shuttle flights, were pulled from the mission.

And wouldn't you know it? Last week, on March 26, 2025, Space Force came through for ULA. As of today, Vulcan Centaur is USSF-certified for launch. Space Force certification follows ULA's two ...