The latest failure of SpaceX’s massive rocket system in South Texas did more than light up the night sky. It rattled nearby ...

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In 1960, a rushed R-16 ICBM launch attempt at Baikonur erupted into a catastrophic pad explosion, then vanished behind a fabricated official story for decades. This is how it happened, why the Soviet ...

On Thursday, a SpaceX rocket, along with a satellite leased in part by Facebook, were destroyed in a launch pad explosion at Cape Canaveral. The explosion, in which no people were harmed, occurred ...

The recent launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station has caused significant damage to Russia's only launch pad capable of sending humans into space. When ...