Aerial views of SpaceX Starship 24 and Super Heavy booster 7 mated at SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. Credit: ...

On Florida's Space Coast, the number of orbital launches has skyrocketed to annual records of 31 in 2021, 57 in 2022, 72 in ...

Falcon 9 with Dragon spacecraft carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla has been rolled out to Pad 39A for the Ax-4 ...

KENNEDY SPACE ... KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A because of a hydraulic issue on a clamp arm of the transporter erector apparatus that holds the Falcon 9 rocket up adjacent to the launch tower.

Students gathered around model space ... the shuttle program’s 25th mission and the first time a civilian, McAuliffe, had flown on a shuttle. Classrooms across America watched the launch.

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 ... parts of the launch tower.While engineers ...

The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch ... The orbiter and the launch tower were draped in icicles. NASA decided the launch would continue.

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle ... heights from a launch pad in Florida. Students gathered around model space shuttles.

Congress has resisted efforts to cut or consolidate the sprawling agency’s storied launch and research centers ... on the moon and then the Space Shuttle, it amassed a collection of 38 rocket ...

At slower than a walking pace, the prototype that helped launch ... space shuttle missions and helped build the International Space Station. 1. Gilbert Bevenflorez III, 6, plays with a small scale ...

By comparison, the Space Shuttle ... launch site. After its 33 Raptor engines roared to life, lifting Starship toward its destination, the booster headed toward home. As it neared the launch tower ...

Hampered last month by bad weather, launch tower problems ... to ferry astronauts to and from the ISS in the wake of the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011, brings a whole new angle to such ...