One of the brightest comets in 20 years, Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS) returns for a close encounter with the sun — but will we be ...

The Atlas family of rockets have been a mainstay of America ... In 2022 it’s slated to launch an exciting NASA project to demonstrate reentering the atmosphere with an inflatable heat shield ...

NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first ...

Here is a breakdown of the aerospace launch vehicles NASA currently uses — not including retired rockets such as Saturn V. 1. Atlas V Atlas V rockets currently come in two series — the 400 and 500.

In the wake of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) in October, comet G3 is due to reach perihelion — its closest to the sun — ...

After the anomalous Orbital Flight Test in 2019, NASA is considering a second uncrewed test flight prior to a crewed mission. Bruno says the Atlas V rocket originally built for the Crew Flight ...

ULA is an extremely reliable launch provider, and they would not have forgone stacking an Atlas V rocket for a critical mission for NASA and the Commercial Crew Program without an express ...

NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first ...

Four NASA astronauts flew on the Convair booster, including Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter "Wally" Schirra and and Gordon Cooper. On May 15, 1963, Cooper's Mercury-Atlas 9 mission lifted off from ...

Boeing's first crewed space flight was postponed just two hours before launch for a safety check, Nasa officials say ... an oxygen relief valve in the Atlas rocket run by the United Launch ...