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One year after traveling aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket, William Shatner explains how the view of the earth from the edge of space made the actor realize how fragile the planet is.

“Booster failure on today’s uncrewed flight. Escape system performed as designed,” tweeted Blue Origin in response to the first launch mishap for Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company. This morning the capsule carrying scientific experiments but no people, separated from the New Shepard rocket using the emergency mechanism. The capsule returned to Earth, but the rocket, […]

NASA’s most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) for Artemis I, has completed its fuel testing campaign and will now begin its final weeks of preparations before launch, mission officials said Friday.

After multiple delays and attempts, on Monday NASA completed a wet dress rehearsal for the Space Launch System (SLS), the agency’s most powerful rocket. The rehearsal wasn’t perfect, but it took the SLS one giant step forward toward becoming operational. Having previously encountered temperature limit issues, faulty core stage valves, and a liquid oxygen leak, […]

The agency’s most powerful rocket is faced with yet another setback following issues found during its wet dress rehearsal.

SpaceX’s Axiom-1 mission blasted off into space with four private citizens onboard.

The Artemis I team is stopping to take every precaution for the rocket’s final major test.

The rehearsal comes after NASA announces its budget for fiscal year 2023.

NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build the first rocket to be fired on another planet for the Mars Sample Return Program.

The agency contends the defense contractor could use its position to harm its rivals.