An approaching hurricane has forced NASA and SpaceX to call off Thursday's planned launch of the highly anticipated Europa ...
SpaceX accomplished a groundbreaking engineering feat Sunday, when it launched the fifth test flight of its gigantic Starship ...
G shenanigans, but a fully stocked bar and spectacular views Richard Branson is taking to the skies again, this time hitching ...
There's some optimism at SpaceX that the FAA might issue a launch license much sooner, perhaps in time for Starship to fly ...
There are five main variants, with different models within each category, including the latest, the 747-8. Nasa still has a 747 in service it used to transport spacecraft, while Sir Richard ...
Rhodes says NASA has not yet committed itself to running ... for Infrared Astronomy), actually a modified flying Boeing 747, which he says can have operational costs of up to $70 to $80 million ...
Nasa has been developing a "megarocket" to send ... That's roughly the same as six 747 airliners at full power. Although the propellants are at hundred of degrees below freezing when they're ...
SOFIA got around the atmospheric problem by mounting a 2.7-meter telescope to the side of a modified Boeing 747. According to NASA, it flew into "38,000-45,000 feet [which] put SOFIA above 99 ...
When workers first tried to ferry Shuttle Columbia to the Kennedy Space Center in 1979 on the back of a 747, hundreds of TPS ... Resupply Services-2 round of NASA contracts. At least six Dream ...
NASA and Rocket Lab are currently working on ... Virgin Orbit’s current fleet of one, a Boeing 747 named Cosmic Girl, is “a constraint.” Reuse is being evaluated as a potential evolution ...
T HE LAUNCH was remarkable: a booster rocket with twice the power of the Apollo programme’s Saturn V lancing into the ...