The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

Blue Origin's massive New Glenn rocket comes in at a towering 320 feet tall — which is equivalent to a 32-story skyscraper.

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Once again, we're back with our annual power ranking of US launch companies. 2024 was the third year Ars compiled a list of ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lists the mission as Starlink 6-71. As of Sunday, SpaceX confirm ed they are targeting a three-hour window which opens at 12:21 p.m.. The SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

According to NASA, it stood at only 184 feet when stacked on the launch pad. That's still shorter than a Falcon 9 rocket — and a Space Shuttle orbiter by itself measures only 122 feet long.

As competition in the new space race ramps up with China, the United States is preparing to deorbit the International Space ...

Welcome to Edition 7.26 of the Rocket Report! Let's pause and reflect on how far the rocket business has come in the last 10 ...

President Jimmy Carter's impact on the U.S. space program honored in Florida where so many of the nation's space ambitions ...

The Vehicle Assembly Building has been used since the 1960s to build the rockets before they lift off from the launch pad. It has been primarily used by 3 rockets: the Saturn V, the Space Shuttle, and ...