Veteran astronaut John Young of Orlando and rookie Bob Crippen flew Columbia into orbit on its second launch attempt, ending ...

Under the blue sky of the vast grounds, the massive jumbo jet (Boeing 747) towers over those who look up, with the space ...

Two Nobel laureates, a record-setting astronaut and a surgeon behind a checklist that cut deaths by 47% share Indian roots.

In April 1984, NASA launched a satellite carrying 12.5 million tomato seeds into orbit to test how space radiation affects biological life. The mission was originally scheduled to last a single year.

SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, reached Earth orbit for the first time on Sept. 28, 2026. This mission, the rocket’s 14th test flight, also marked the first time ...

Rocket launches can be scrubbed for a variety of reasons, from technical issues to foreign objects. Retired Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach recalled scrubs caused by a ballpoint pen, boats, and ...

Four people — two NASA astronauts, one from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut — spent nearly eight months at ...

On Sept. 18, 2026, SpaceX submitted a 12-page technical response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) detailing atmospheric re-entry thermodynamics and orbital collision probabilities for ...

The Soviet Union hid the chaos of Gagarin's near-fatal reentry for a decade, Nixon's speechwriter quietly drafted a eulogy for astronauts left to die on the moon, and a classified report revealed NASA ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Reentry: A Space Flight Simulator Do you have what it takes to be an astronaut? Reentry is a realistic space flight simulator based on NASAs space programs; ...

For the first time, two W-series spacecraft lift off on the same rocket, marking a new phase of orbital operations. EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Varda Space Industries, the leader ...