We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4th, 1957. As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space ...

How did America respond to the Soviet Union’s space dominance? The Mercury Rocket was supposed to put the U.S. ahead, but despite its early victories, it was quickly replaced. Why? Find out the ...

Space Exploration Launches & Spacecraft On this day in space! July 7, 1961: U.S. Air Force Launches Discoverer 26 Spy Satellite ...

United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket took Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft from the Space Launch Complex 41 to the International Space Station on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 28 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

Watch this amazing time-lapse of: Astroscale's ADRAS-J mission completed fly arounds of a Japanese H-IIA rocket upper stage in 2024. The imagery would expect to be used for a future mission to ...

Bezos himself even boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard for its maiden crewed voyage in July 2021, which came after the spacecraft flew on 15 flight tests beginning in 2012. For nearly four years ...

Blue Origin's next crewed launch, known as NS-33, will get off the ground from a private facility in West Texas. Reaching the very edge of space, the 6 people on board New Shepard spacecraft will ...

On July 11, Virgin Galactic’s space plane V.S.S. Unity lit its rocket motor and flew to more than 53 miles above Earth’s surface, sending the company’s founder Richard Branson to the edge of ...