NASA and SpaceX saw this coming. The launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, formerly home to the Saturn V rocket and the space shuttle, has been the only launch facility capable of handling Dragon ...

SpaceX, headed by billionaire Elon Musk, is eyeing a few key objectives to prepare Starship for more frequent flights from Starbase in South Texas.

The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air ... and it was discovered that the SLC-6 launch pad — recycled from previous canceled Air Force projects like the never-launched ...

And under that pad are a half-dozen seismic isolators ... “I actually have a rendering from 1992 showing a space shuttle in launch position,” he says. With any luck, the shuttle will be ...

Mission planners hoped to dedicate space shuttle Discovery to West Coast operations, with launches from Vandenberg starting in 1986. Shuttle Enterprise on the KSC launch pad in Florida for tests ...

Apollo 4 travels to the launch pad atop the Mobile Launcher in 1967. NASA The Space Shuttle program was able to reuse the three Apollo-era MLs with some modifications. These reconfigured platforms ...

Let’s journey from the heart of the launch pad to the hidden havens that now flourish in its shadow. The Birth of the Space Shuttle and Environmental Concerns When the space shuttle program was ...

The space shuttle flight program came to a close on ... as well as the three who died in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967 and the Columbia accident, every year at the end of January NASA ...

On a cold Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from a Kennedy Space Center launch pad. Seventy-three seconds into the launch, the shuttle broke apart, killing the seven ...