Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

Plenty more launches are to come, including another test of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, which exploded while in flight ...

On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft. This small capsule ... version of the capsules NASA used for Project Mercury. Each capsule was shaped like a bell and ...

The launch is scheduled for 9:46 p.m. EDT from NASA's historic Launch Complex 39A at the space agency's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. If the rocket doesn't lift off then, other launch ...

“Unfortunately this happened last time too, so we have some practice at this now,” SpaceX flight commentator Dan Huot said from the launch site. SpaceX later confirmed that the spacecraft ...

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The work of building the Mercury spacecraft, like all military aircraft, was contracted out to corporations to carry out engineers’ designs. But NASA controlled the launches and crews.

Fram2, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's poles, is scheduled to launch Monday night from Kennedy Space Center. The crew of four, led by mission commander Chun Wang, will fly aboard a SpaceX ...

The astronauts will launch atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket and fly to the moon aboard a Lockheed Martin-built Orion capsule. The crew will transfer to the waiting Starship for the descent ...

May 5, 1961 – Project Mercury astronaut Alan B ... November 15, 2020 – A SpaceX spacecraft launches from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. This is a landmark mission for NASA and the company ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...