Associated PressMay 28, 2025
SpaceX launches another Starship rocket after back-to-back explosions, but it tumbles out of control
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403-foot SpaceX Starship spun out of control moments after launch from Texas and disintegrated over Indian Ocean.
Tag: rocket
Associated PressMay 28, 2025Associated PressSeptember 24, 2022
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NASA has just two chances to launch the rocket — Tuesday and Oct. 2 — before a two-week blackout period begins.
Marcia DunnAugust 29, 2022
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Engine problem led to halt of Monday's launch attempt. Next chance is Friday.
Associated PressJune 26, 2022
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Launch raised alarm in Washington amid the unraveling of the nuclear deal.
Gabrielle RussonMay 4, 2022
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Walking up and waiting in line is not gonna happen.
Scott PowersSeptember 23, 2019
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NASA can't put boots on the moon without the SLS, which is nowhere near ready.
Scott PowersJanuary 3, 2017
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Declaring that the glitch that blew up its last rocket while sitting on the launch pad back in September has been identified and fixed, SpaceX announced it is ready to launch again – Sunday, from California. SpaceX said it plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Station. to carry a French Iridium […]
Scott PowersSeptember 14, 2016
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Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos announced this week his Blue Origin company is going to build the biggest rocket on Earth and call it the “New Glenn,” continuing his tradition of naming spacecraft after legendary NASA astronauts. The rocket will be taller than anything now in production, though smaller than NASA’s planned Space Launch System rocket; […]
Scott PowersJune 1, 2016
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A planned Saturday launch of a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral has been postponed. The delay comes at the request of the payload’s owner, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. United Launch Alliance had scheduled the launch of the Delta IV Heavy, the nation’s most powerful rocket, to carry an NRO communications satellite into […]
Guest AuthorJuly 6, 20158min216
The words “We have liftoff!” are as exciting as any in the English language; right up there with “Gentlemen, start your engines!” The remarkable feat of sending a rocket or space shuttle into space has seen the heights of triumph and the depths of failure. Many still agonize over a fire that took the lives […]