Conceived not long after the first Chevy small blocks hit American streets, the RL10 was the type of rocket engine you could ...

SpaceX managed to find a lull in the winds early Monday, but a second SpaceX launch as well as one from United Launch ...

Over 30 launches have blasted off from the Atlantic coast of Florida in 2022, but later this week, those on the Space Coast may get to see a glimpse of the future. Missions carried by both United ...

On Sept. 4, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft performed the first-ever rocket maneuver in deep space as it did a quick mid-course correction on its way to Venus. It had launched just eight days ...

The very first picture of Earth taken from the Moon was captured on August 23, 1966. The photo, though grainy and in black and white, showed our planet as a small crescent shape above the Moon’s ...

The first-ever image of Earth from near the moon was captured by a spacecraft on 23 August 1966. (Image: NASA) The first view of Earth rising above the lunar horizon came not from Apollo but from an ...

(Web Desk) - Humanity's first look at Earth from the moon didn't come until Aug. 23, 1966, when this grainy, black-and-white image showed our planet as a crescent above the lunar horizon, appearing to ...

Sure, but that’s Atlas V and Delta IV. When Atlas got an Upper stage, they called it Atlas-Able, or Atlas-Agena, or Atlas-Centaur. When it got a stretch and new engines, it became the Atlas II.

Precision was hardly a precise enough word to describe what would be required of the rocketing spacecraft Ranger 6 as it reached for the moon. To begin with, said the Jet Propulsion Laboratory men who ...

A 60-year-old tribute to America's first human spaceflight program is standing up to the test of time, but what about the contents of its time capsule not to be opened until 2464? The Project Mercury ...