Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts.   The rocket was ...
For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined ...
LEAP 71 and metal additive manufacturing (AM) firm HBD have additively manufactured an aerospike rocket engine that can generate 20 tons (200 kN) of thrust. At one-metre in height, the partners ...
100 years after Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, NASA is preparing a return to the moon with the Artemis program.
One hundred years ago yesterday, Robert H. Goddard ignited a small rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen on a frozen farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. That flight lasted roughly 2.5 seconds. Today, ...
Nevertheless, this rocket, named “Nell,” represented a historic achievement that would help launch the modern age of ...
On a late January morning at a test range in the United States, a missile lifted off that its builders said broke from ...
The Cape Canaveral site is where John Glenn launched to orbit. Now it will host Stoke Space's Nova rocket; an effort toward ...
Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. Pressurized helium ...
The rocket will be removed from the launchpad in order for technicians to investigate and fix a malfunctioning helium system. By Kenneth Chang A day after NASA officials optimistically said they were ...
A failure in the helium flow of the SLS rocket has prompted NASA to delay the Artemis II moon mission. Rather than March 6, the launch is now targeted for April. NASA has once again postponed the ...
Robert Goddard's Massachusetts, coauthored by Lowell Observatory Historian Kevin Schindler and Charles Slatkin, to be released March 3. Inspired by a vision he experienced while in a cherry tree and ...