While the crew of Apollo 9 was still orbiting Earth on this day in 1969, preparations were already underway on the ground for the next critical step in the race to the Moon.

Russia has fixed Site 31 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, the only pad supporting the nation's human spaceflight missions. It had been ...

Welcome to Edition 8.32 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week is NASA’s shake-up of the Artemis program. On paper, at ...

A Soyuz rocket launch that carried astronauts toward the International Space Station (ISS) last November left unexpected damage at Baikonur Cosmodrome’s Site 31, Russia’s only operational pad ...

A Russian launch pad was damaged during a recent mission to the International Space Station. The launch successfully sent one NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the orbital outpost. The ...

NASA's Space Launch System rocket is about to depart the launch pad in Florida where it has been vertical for more than a month ahead of Artemis 2.

NASA will roll its Artemis 2 moon rocket off the launch pad on Wednesday (Feb. 25) to deal with a glitch, and you can watch the four-mile trek live.

NASA plans to roll the Artemis II Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft back to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Feb. 25 to address a helium flow issue.

Space Aircraft Carrier? Key Points and Summary - SpaceWERX has tapped Seattle startup Gravitics to develop an “orbital carrier”—a pre-positioned, in-space launch pad that can rapidly deploy small ...

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SpaceX launched 26 missions from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A in 2025, including four human spaceflights. That era is coming to an end. A massive crane has been put in place this week that ...