Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Nasa astronaut trapped in space ventures outside for first time in months 70 vintage photos that will send every '70s kid back in time Harris joins a decades-old tradition for vice presidents in her ...

Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, pulled off a daring booster catch on its most ambitious test flight yet, but ...

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space ... 6, just two days after launch, the astronauts mated Zarya with Unity, a connecting module built in the United States.

This marked the only shuttle landing at White Sands. First American woman in space: STS-7 (Challenger) The launch of Challenger on June 18, 1983, marked a pivotal milestone: Sally Ride became the ...

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, was poised to launch its first orbital rocket before technical ...

Astronauts launched in an Orion capsule atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket then will rendezvous with the Starship in orbit around the moon for the descent to the surface. NASA's contract ...

SpaceX sent up the second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Monday afternoon. A Falcon 9 carrying 24 of the ...

It was the second, the Columbia, that had the honor of being the first space shuttle to launch into orbit. It blasted off on April 12, 1981, exactly two decades after Yuri Gagarin became the first ...

According to NASA, it stood at only 184 feet when stacked on the launch pad. That's still shorter than a Falcon 9 rocket — and a Space Shuttle orbiter by itself measures only 122 feet long.

For the postponed flight, it is carrying a prototype of Blue Ring, a vehicle Blue Origin is developing to move payloads to different orbits after they go to space. Why the launch window was in the ...