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'Rocket's red glare': How NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission celebrated America's 250th birthday

NASA joined in the semiquincentennial celebrations this year by painting "America 250" on the rocket that launched the Artemis 2 astronauts around the moon.

NASA aims to save a sinking space telescope with a rendezvous in orbit

NASA on Tuesday plans to launch a mission to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. A spacecraft is expected to push the telescope into a stable orbit so it doesn’t fall into the atmosphere.

NASA Rushes to Rescue a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

A one-of-a-kind NASA space telescope is about to fall out of the sky. For more than two decades, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope has gazed at the fading afterglows of

After liftoff, Cape Canaveral rocket launch may be seen in Tallahassee

What time is liftoff? ULA Atlas V rocket may be visible for most of Florida, states along the East Coast. Did your city make the launch visibility map?

The SpaceX Milestones That Built Elon Musk’s $2T Rocket Empire

Explore the biggest milestones in SpaceX history, from Falcon 1 and reusable rockets to Starlink, Starship, NASA missions, and the company's landmark 2026 IPO.

NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

Relativity Space — a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit — might just beat SpaceX to Mars.