Fast forward to the present day. The Space Launch System has flown only once, during the Artemis I mission, and is preparing ...
WASHINGTON — NASA has selected 13 companies for negotiations leading to potential contract awards to conduct systems analysis and trade studies for evaluating heavy-lift launch vehicle system concepts ...
As the global appetite for orbital launches continues to grow, the competition among new and old space companies to build bigger and better launch vehicles is firing up. It can be hard to keep up with ...
WASHINGTON — NASA has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) seeking proposals and industry input on heavy-lift system concepts and propulsion technology. NASA is seeking an innovative path for ...
After Challenger, NASA explored a radical idea: keep the shuttle stack, remove the crewed orbiter, and create an uncrewed heavy-lift cargo vehicle. Shuttle-C promised massive payloads for the Moon and ...
In person, Canaveral National Seashore is the closest spot to view liftoff because it is almost parallel to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Visitors at NASA's Kennedy Space Center would ...
NASA vs SpaceX rockets compared on cost, technology, and performance, revealing how reusability and innovation reshape modern spaceflight missions.
When you compare SpaceX to the world’s other space enterprises, it’s probably easier to list the things SpaceX hasn’t done instead of reciting all of the company’s achievements. One of these is the ...