The Air Force’s Bell X-1 rocket plane started its famous supersonic flights by being dropped from a high-flying B29. Last week, trying something new, it took off from the ground for the first ...

Before the ship loss, the company successfully demonstrated how its massive mechanical arms dubbed “chopsticks” caught the rocket booster at the launch pad for the second time ever.

It’s very easy to build the same ship over and over again.” The vision of oceanic spaceports is almost as old as rocketry itself. The first large rocket to take off from sea was a V2 ...

SpaceX caught the Starship rocket’s Super Heavy booster for ... The company then saw its link to the telemetry coming off of the ship disappear, and a few minutes later SpaceX confirmed that ...

A Japanese rocket exploded just seconds after lift-off ... to put the satellite into orbit around 51 minutes after take-off. The fire has been extinguished and there were no injuries near the ...

The Starship's booster was caught as planned between two giant mechanical arms at the launchpad - but disaster hit the rocket itself.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket blasted off Thursday from a launchpad near ... wasn’t able to land on a remotely controlled ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Bezos has emphasized the importance ...

REUTERS The rocket had planned to land a first-stage booster on the Jacklyn ship offshore in the Atlantic ... A Falcon 9 rocket is set to take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as soon ...

It was a triumph for Jeff Bezos as his rocket ship, New Glenn, blasted off. The Amazon founder watched from the control center as Blue Origin employees across the nation celebrated. It's the first ...