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Experts and companies agree: Methane is the rocket fuel of the future.

Not one, not two, but 24 payloads are going up into orbit

It was so cold on February 20, 1969, that the launch was delayed; even the biggest of all Soviet rockets…

If at first you don’t succeed… try gently landing a rocket on a boat again

Put a flying thing on a flying thing so you can blast off while you take off.

If you happen to be on the East Coast tonight, preferably between North Carolina and New Jersey, you’ll be in for a dazzling late night show. NASA will be launching five rockets consecutively in five minutes time, part of its ATREX mission, which aims to study high-altitude jet streams. The five suborbital rockets will release chemical tracers as they sore […]

Iran’s ambitious 1960s-styled plans to send a live monkey into space aboard one of the Islamic Republic’s Kavoshgar-5 rockets have…

The dawn of a new space era has begun – the commercial space era! As governments constantly cut space exploration budgets, the world is forced to turn its gaze upon the private sector which is more than willing to lend a commercial hand to space agencies. Space tourism, satellite orbit delivery, ISS cargo taxi, you […]

Bill gives green light for a more ambitious NASA