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For 30 years, Valerie Neal curated the human spaceflight artifact collections at the National Air and Space Museum. But after ...

SpaceX has pulled off another successful test flight of Starship, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by ...

50th anniversary of Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight. May 5, 2011 — -- Fifty years ago today, astronaut Alan Shepard squeezed into a tiny Mercury capsule and challenged the heavens. He called his ...

In its ninth test flight, SpaceX’s launch vehicle Starship once again reached space, surpassing problems that prematurely ended its two previous test launches. But as with those ill-fated preceding ...

"The flight campaign for the American space shuttle began on April 12, 1981, with the launch of STS-1 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and ended on July 21, 2011, with wheels stop of STS-135.

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission has achieved something no other mission—or synchronized swimmer—has before: autonomous, precision formation flying in space with millimeter accuracy. ESA’s ...