NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the project to move forward with full-scale fabrication of the spacecraft, ...

Who's doing it? NASA and Firefly Aerospace, a Cedar Park, Texas, company that manufactures and operates launch vehicles and spacecraft. Launched: Jan. 15. Launch vehicle:SpaceX Falcon ...

The grand deorbit of the aging laboratory will happen around 2030, and NASA ... graphic below. (The Dragon craft currently supply both crew and cargo to the space station.) The new, elongated ...

Nov 16 (Reuters) - With a dash of launch ... NASA's post-Apollo human spaceflight program after decades focused on low-Earth orbit with space shuttles and the International Space Station. (See ...

Here is a breakdown of the aerospace launch vehicles NASA currently uses — not including retired rockets such as Saturn V. 1. Atlas V Atlas V rockets currently come in two series — the 400 and 500.

On Friday NASA closed the bidding process to select a launch vehicle for an upcoming Earth science mission to measure changes in sea level, Sentinel-6B. The mission is expected to launch into low ...

A last-minute problem halted Saturday’s launch countdown for ... The arrival of a new vehicle is "a really big deal. You leave nothing to chance,” NASA astronaut Michael Barratt told the ...

In a sources sought notice posted Tuesday, NASA said its planned Evolving Launch Vehicle Integrated Support 4 contract will succeed the current KSC ELVIS 3 contract. ELVIS 4 has an intended start ...

NASA selected Intuitive ... The lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) is intended for use during the Artemis 5 mission, which is scheduled for launch in September 2029. "Think of a hybrid of the Apollo ...

Credit: NASA / Joel Kowsky If this NASA launch vehicle could talk — say at an international consortium of the world's most elite, hobnobbing space rockets — this is how it would introduce ...