The roar of rocket engines, the trembling earth beneath your feet, and a pillar of fire slicing through the sky—few human ...

Jan. 15: SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A at 1:11 a.m. with both ... a veteran of three space shuttle flights, were pulled from the mission. This is Hague’s third ...

And when the shuttle’s solid rocket boosters fired, a sonic shock wave rebounded off the pad and struck Columbia ... from engineers at the launch site. The space shuttle was the most remarkable ...

The rocket is powered by one BE-3PM engine, which propels it to suborbit before restarting to slow the booster to just 6 mph for a controlled landing back on the launch pad. It is named after ...

The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...