The first test launch of the world’s most powerful rocket ended dramatically as it broke apart in the sky. But there’s still a lot riding on it—including NASA’s ambition to return to the moon.
Starting this coming Friday, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is going to make a second try atlaunching the Super Heavy Starship, the largest, and most powerful rocket ever launched. The first attempt back in April got off the pad, but had to be destroyed over the Gulf of Mexico after the two stage...
"Two years ago Starship was a design concept and a mock up," Handmer wrote in a lengthypost on his personal blogabout the hyper-ambitious rocket. "Today it’s a 95 percent complete prototype that will soon fly to space and may even make it back in one piece." SpaceX has indeed made...
Instagram is launching its in-appevents channelwith an inside look at one of the wildest nights in pop culture -- this Sunday's VMAs -- and a little help from celebrities like Joe Jonas and DJ Khaled. The channel is part of the app's push toward video, including Stories, which will ...
Later this month, NASA is launching more than rockets, as America's space agency puts it. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is set to release NASA+, its new, free streaming service this November. For space fans, this is pretty exciting news. But what exactly is NASA+ and...
Jim Free: We've seen some of the challenges they've had on Starship. We need them to launch several times-- to give us the confidence that we can put our crews on there. Bill Whitaker: But right now, as we sit here today, you have no way of getting the ...
SpaceX’s recent Starship rocket launch captured in space station video According to comments made in March by Kathy Lueders, the then chief of NASA’s human spaceflight program, the final cost of the tug could reach almost $1 billion. ...
Blue Origin is on the cusp of launching into the big booster market with the debut of its New Glenn rocket next week, but exactly when is unclear.
Kennedy Space Center, along with nearly Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, is launching humanity's future — enabling increased access to commercial space, supporting the advancement of science and innovation, and exploring the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all. Additional resources A...
Finally, I would like to share with you a speech made by Elon Musk when SpaceX Starship launch failed again a while ago: We make mistakes. We have reversals. We take steps back. But what we have done throughout our history is to confirm those challenges openly,publicly,transparently, not...