Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty ...

Ohio native Judith Resnik was a mission specialist on the doomed Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded shortly after ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

As the Artemis II mission gears up for its Feb. 6 launch, final preparations are underway at Kennedy Space Center, including ...

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

Shortly after NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft arrived to Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 17, engineers began preparations ...

NASA conducted a full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor - part ...

SpaceX is targeting a Sunday, Jan. 25, launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Here's ...

(This story has been updated with new information. The ULA Atlas V rocket launch was postponed to Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025.) Will people in Southwest Florida see a rocket in the sky? A so Florida thing ...

(This story has been updated with new information. The ULA Atlas V rocket launch was postponed to Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025.) A so Florida thing is coming up − and it's possible people can see it far ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Florida's Space Coast at 5:26 p.m. on Monday.The rocket targeted the launch of 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at ...