What do Ptolemy and ancient Chinese rockets have in common? Without either of these things, space flight wouldn't be possible ...

Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached orbit unmanned atop a Proton rocket on April 19, 1971. The early first-generation stations were plagued by failures. The crew of Soyuz 10 ...

A towering propellant tank and its rocket engine now stand on display at ... "The Centaur is deeply rooted in our history," ...

The Red Rockets ... space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social ...

Strapped to a trailer and pulled by a pick-up truck along a runway once used by B-52 bombers in the Cold War, it wasn't the most glamorous entrance for a rocket about to make history. And it very ...

For the average Earthling, touring space may still be the stuff of science fiction, but in 2000, Popular Science published a ...

Lacking in-house access to cheap rockets, Amazon ended up placing the biggest order in the history of the space business, buying 83 launches from assorted rocket firms including United Launch ...

quickly re-launchable rockets, a technological tour de force unmatched in the history of earlier space programs relying on expendable, throw-away rockets. "Big step towards making life ...

This design pays homage to the city of Houston and its history with space. The court is part of the NBA’s “Hometown Heroes” theme this season. The Rockets will wear a jersey with “H-Town ...

The upper “ship” part of the rocket, which flew successfully on to orbit yesterday as part of its test, is about 16 apartments tall. The “ship” will also be reusable, and has space for ...

This space shrapnel grabs the headlines crafted by leading space writers around the world, he says, but the massive rockets that have ... for example, have illustrated how real this risk is.” ...

For the first time, a part of a space rocket has been successfully caught ... the missions said the achievement was a "day for the history books," as the booster landed safely.