SpaceX scrubs 8th test flight of heavy-lift rocket Starship from Texas base
SpaceX on Monday will launch the eighth test flight of its biggest and most powerful rocket. The liftoff is scheduled to take ...
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NASA's 6 million pound crawler-transporter carries rockets
An curved arrow pointing right. Rockets can't just drive themselves to the launchpad — so NASA has two of the biggest vehicles ever built to get them there. Weighing in at 6 million pounds ...
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SpaceX assembles the world's largest rocket for Starship Flight 7 test launch (photos)
On Friday (Jan. 10), SpaceX successfully stacked its Starship spacecraft atop a giant Super Heavy booster to prepare for the next launch of the world's largest rocket next week. Liftoff is set for ...
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How NASA drives the $144-million vehicle that transports rocket ships
That's where NASA's crawler-transporters come in. They're the largest self-powered vehicles on the planet, and they're designed to transport rockets to the launchpad. We got an inside look at how ...
As it happened: NASA, SpaceX launch rocket to bring back stuck astronauts
The U.S. space agency and SpaceX are on a mission to bring home astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. They have been ...
SpaceX Starship rocket explodes after Texas launch. See video, photos of debris
Starbase, a rocket facility owned by SpaceX, is located just outside of Brownsville, Texas. The construction of this facility began in 2014. Originally known as Boca Chica, Texas, Starbase is an area ...
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SpaceX rocket explodes, raining debris from sky for second time in a row
A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched from Texas on Thursday, grounding flights and triggering warnings about falling spaceship debris. SpaceX confirmed the un-crewed ship had ...