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The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

SpaceX faces a significant hurdle in attracting engineers and technicians to its Starbase facility in South Texas due to limited job prospects for their spouses. Elon Musk highlighted this ...

But even by those standards, the concept you see here, a high-riding minivan that looks more at home in orbit than on asphalt, is something else entirely. Minivan, But Make It Space Age Dubbed a “Jet ...

We live in an age where engineering marvels are commonplace: airplanes crisscross the sky, skyscrapers grow like weeds, and spacecraft reach for the stars. But every so often, we see something ...

NASA has selected the California startup Vast to operate the sixth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for summer 2027. There are only three astronauts ...