A group of private astronauts from four different countries launched from the Kennedy Space Center on June 25 to head to the ...

The term astronaut was only rarely disputed until the first "celebrity" suborbital flight in 2021.In the 1960s, pilots flying the experimental, rocket-powered X-15 jet were awarded astronaut ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 of SpaceX's Starlink "V2 mini" satellites took off on Wednesday (April 19) at 10:31 a.m. ET (1431 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Japan successfully launched its 50th and final H2A liquid-fuel rocket from a southwestern Japanese island on Sunday (June 29) ...

SpaceX launches rocket on Space Force mission 00:23. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying a suite of classified U.S. Space Force payloads blasted off on the rocket's fourth flight Tuesday, the ...

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket in the world, launched out of Florida on Tuesday morning, marking the first flight for the rocket in more than three years.

Bezos has focused on reaching an altitude of about 62.1 miles (100km), one proposed boundary of space known as the Kármán line, named after the early 20th-century polymath Theodore von Kármán.

Elon Musk has many titles at SpaceX. Julia Cherruault for Observer. In August, Elon Musk gave the YouTuber Tim Dodd (The Everyday Astronaut) an extensive, “day-in-a-CEO’s-life” style tour of ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches the USSF-67 mission for the U.S. Space Force from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 15, 2023. (Image credit: SpaceX via Twitter) ...

For most of the history of spaceflight, sending a rocket to space required mobilizing resources on a national scale. The V-2 rocket, which was the first to reach space in 1942 , took well over a ...

Simply sign up to the Business education myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Few MBA graduates can trump Ariane Cornell’s job title. She is head of astronaut strategy at Blue Origin ...