one in which a whole lot of launches have to come to ruin before the engineers get things right. During NASA’s early days, nearly half of the Atlas boosters that lofted the Mercury astronauts ...

In a statement, the space agency said the Atlas V rocket used to launch the capsule would be ... workhorse that traces its heritage to the Mercury program. Scrubs, however, are common in ...

A strange blue spiral lit up the sky over Europe on Monday night (March 24), with residents of the UK and other countries speculating on its true nature on social media.