On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff. Pilot Michael Smith's final words ...

NASA’s powerful Launch Abort System — literally designed to outrun the debris from an exploding rocket and save the lives of ...

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South Korean startup Innospace says it knows what went wrong on its first-ever orbital launch attempt. Innospace sent its Hanbit-Nano rocket skyward for the first time ever on Dec. 22, from the ...

In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 lunar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Designed as the USSR’s answer to the Saturn V ...

The upcoming test flight, dubbed "Stairway to Seven," is the seventh for the Alpha rocket. Following the mission, Firefly will debut a new, taller version of Alpha for flight 8. The company also ...