It’s a major milestone for the company’s new mega-rocket system, putting it in position to challenge SpaceX’s dominance of the global launch market.
The countdown for the first crewed lunar flight in more than 50 years is underway, NASA announced on Monday. The onsite countdown clock started ticking down at 4:44 p.m. ET on Monday for the targeted launch of the Artemis II mission in just two days’ t…
SpaceX chief Elon Musk said in February that the mighty Starship rocket would embark on its 12th test flight this month, although several more recent reports have suggested that it might not leave the launchpad until early April. Preflight tests on the…
There’s a moment in John Williams’s Star Wars overture when the brass surges upward. You don’t just hear it; you feel propulsion turning into pure possibility.On 16 March 1926, in a snow-dusted field in Auburn, Mass., Robert Goddard created an earlier…
SpaceX is edging toward the 12th launch of its Starship rocket, which this time will see a new version of the massive vehicle head skyward. The launch team has just completed a crucial test of the Starship’s first stage — the Super Heavy — at its Starb…
NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years won’t be getting underway this month after all. It had been targeting February 6 for the launch of the much-anticipated Artemis II mission that will take four astronauts on a flight around the moo…
SpaceX is aiming to fly its next-gen Super Heavy booster next month, according to a recent post on X by the company’s CEO, Elon Musk. As part of the Starship rocket that also includes the upper-stage Ship spacecraft, the Super Heavy is the most powerfu…
A NASA video (above) reveals in great detail how its upcoming Artemis II mission is expected to play out. The space agency released the animation last year, but seeing that the Artemis II astronauts could be heading to the moon as early as February 6, …
The mighty Starship rocket could take its 12th test flight as early as March, according SpaceX chief Elon Musk. In a post on X on Monday, Musk shared a photo of the massive rocket in an earlier flight, along with the comment, “Starship launch in 6 week…
The thunderous roar that echoed across Huntsville, Alabama, on 10 January wasn’t a rocket launch but something equally momentous: the end of an era. Two massive test stands at Marshall Space Flight Center that helped send humans to the moon collapsed …