Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

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

That’s because the Starship vehicles “will be staying in space for long duration missions ... Because Starship is not equipped with a nose cone, or payload fairing, as most other rockets ...

For comparison flying a kilo to orbit on the partially reusable Space Shuttle cost over $54,000 ... and it’ll be amazing to see its “chomper” nose cone open and close in space.

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make its maiden flight in May after launching atop a rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Pre-flight testing continues at NASA ...

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 ...