A United States military mini shuttle launched Thursday night to conduct unspecified experiments in space. SpaceX powered the launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched ...

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force hitched a ride on SpaceX to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to ...

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There is a long process to getting the Space Shuttle ready to launch! If it lands Vandenburg Air Force Base in California then it will need to be flown across the United States to Kennedy Space Center ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) would need to be cut into ...

The Department of the Air Force has approved SpaceX’s plans to launch up to 100 missions per year from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This would continue the tectonic turnaround at the ...

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...

STARBASE, Texas—For the third day in a row, SpaceX engineers prepared to send the company’s massive Starship rocket into space Tuesday after a technical problem and bad weather grounded the test ...

The length of the mission wasn't disclosed, but a previous flight lasted years. A not-so-secret, secret reusable spaceplane operated by the United States Space Force is scheduled to lift off for its ...

In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House and seven talented astronauts were wrangled into an orbital battle over soft-drink supremacy. In the summer of 1985, NASA, the Reagan White House ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...