NASA to send helicopter to Mars in 2020

National Aeronautics and Space Administration is planning to send the first unmanned helicopter to Mars in its mission scheduled to launch in 2020, to test the viability and potential of......

Boeing's space odyssey

A Boeing Delta 4 rocket lifts off from launch complex 37B on December 21, 2004 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.After several weeks of delays, the heavy-lifting rocket finally got off......

Explosion rocks SpaceX in Florida during pre-launch test

An explosion rocked a SpaceX launch site on Thursday during a routine rocket test. SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred shortly after 9 am, according......

SpaceX completes historic vertical landing

In a shot in the arm for Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, founded by high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, the California-based company scripted history when its Falcon-9 rocket booster......