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In spaceflight, we advance by learning from our mistakes — if, that is, we accept the learning we gain from those failures and apply it to our future endeavors.

Cape Canaveral’s infrastructure is being stretched to its limits as the world’s busiest launch site continues to get busier.

Engineers at NASA's assembly facility have fully integrated all five major structures of the Space Launch System's core stage.

Home News Tech Artists illustration of a moon base powered by Rolls-Royce microreactors. (Image credit: Rolls-Royce Holdings) The U.K. Space Agency has decided to continue funding a project by Rolls-Royce to create a small nuclear-powered reactor that could serve as a long-term energy source for lunar bases.  The new boost to Rolls-Royce’s research pot follows

On a long enough timeline in which mankind doesn't abandon human-crewed spaceflight beyond LEO as we did in the early 70s, a nuclear reactor will li...

NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently imaged the moons Malapert Massif, a potential touchdown locale for NASAs Artemis 3 astronaut mission.

NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I flight test proved the agency’s deep space rocket, spacecraft, and the ground systems needed for launch and recovery are ready to fly astronauts on missions to

Elon Musk has said SpaceX is ready to blast Starship into orbit from the companys launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, once it receives a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration.

University of New Orleans alumnus Lionel Dutreix likens his job to that of a mayor of a small city. His “city,” however, is unlike any other in that its focus really is rocket science.

Artemis I mission launched on Nov. 16, 2022 and then returned on Dec. 11, 2022. Uncrewed, it tested the Orion spacecraft and the SLS rocket, the most powerful rocket ever used.