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A SpaceX Falcon 9 RocketSpaceX SpaceX is continuing its ambitious mission to bring the internet to the entire planet through its Starlink program and is furthering its aim of rocket reusability at the same time. Next week, the company will launch a further 6…

SpaceX is edging closer to the day that its Crew Dragon capsule carries astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). A video (below) posted online on Sunday showed a recent parachute test simulating what would happen if one of the capsules four main …

Social media can be a great way for people to connect, but it can also enable bad behavior that makes it far less appealing. Here's a running list of celebrities who've cited mental health issues, racism, sexism and fan drama as reasons to say sayonara to Twi…

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and its service module sit atop the test stand at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico ahead of the company's Pad Abort Test.  Boeing You can watch a big test of Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft Monday as NASA pushe…

Enlarge/ The Electron launch vehicle is ready to soar. 0 with 0 posters participating Welcome to Edition 2.21 of the Rocket Report! As always, there are intriguing developments in the world of lift this week. We particularly liked the Russian plans to devel…

Part of my series on common misconceptions in space journalism. SpaceX has been working on some variant of the Big Falcon Rocket for almost a decade, with a publicly announced architecture for three years. The target performance figures are on the Starship w…

(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — The Air Force’s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission. The X-37B landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Sunday. The Air Force is mum about what the plane did in orbit after…

The old space shuttle landing facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center received an unusual visitor early Sunday morning when the Air Forces secretive X-37B space plane autonomously returned from orbit after a record-breaking mission. For the last 780 days, the …

The fifth mission, known as OTV-5 (for "orbital test vehicle") launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 7, 2017. That means it was in space for 780 days, or more than two years. This mission started with a liftoff atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Ai…

NASA and its commercial astronaut program partners are laser-focused on getting crew into space, but to get to space you first have to get to the rocket, and that’s where the Airstream Astrovan II comes in. This vehicle, which is the sequel to the original As…