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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — A new era for United Launch Alliance is geared to make its much-delayed debut as its new Vulcan Centaur rocket is set to lift off during an overnight launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The replacement for ULA’s Atlas V and Delta IV rockets that was originally targeting its first launch back in 2021 finally aims to take flight three years later on the ...
There’s a lot riding on tonight’s scheduled launch of United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket, including what could be the first mission to put a commercially built lander safely on the moon. Liftoff will mark the first-ever space mission for the Vulcan rocket, and the first-ever use of BE-4 rocket engines built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture. Two BE-4 engines, fueled by liquefied natural gas, will lift the first-stage booster spaceward with an assist from two si
A Vulcan rocket roared to life early Monday for the first time, launching a lunar lander from a private Pittsburgh-based company carrying NASA science and other payloads to the Moon.
NASA rested the RDRE recently at its Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, while the first fire test was performed at Marshall in the summer of 2022 in partnership with In Space LLC and Purdue University. What is RDRE and how will it help take spacecraft to Mars?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book about the end state of communism ‘to all those who did not live to tell it.’