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Space Shuttle Challenger breaks up during its 1986 launch resulting in the death of all seven crew members. This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human death or serious injury. These include incidents during flight or training for crewed space missions and testing, assembly, preparation, or ...
The Space Launch System (SLS) is an American super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle used by NASA. As the primary launch vehicle of the Artemis Moon landing program, SLS is designed to launch the crewed Orion spacecraft on a trans-lunar trajectory. The first (and so far only) SLS launch was the uncrewed Artemis I, which took place on 16 ...
According to the NTSB briefing, SpaceShipTwo (SS2) dropped from the mother ship as planned and fired its new hybrid rocket engine normally. About eleven seconds later, the space plane violently broke apart, [7] substantially giving the appearance of an explosion, and creating a 35-mile-long (55-kilometer) debris field. [8]
The astronauts will launch atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket and fly to the moon aboard a Lockheed Martin-built Orion capsule. The crew will transfer to the waiting Starship for the descent ...
SpaceX's Starship rocket achieved a world first on Sunday during its fifth test flight, showing for the first time that Elon Musk's launch system may really have what it takes to revolutionize ...
6th SpaceX launch of Starship: What happened on previous flight tests? Starship splashed in Indian Ocean at 6:05 p.m. ET. The Starship reentry went according to plan, splashing down in the Indian ...
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list ...
Elon Musk's ambitions for settling Mars rest on SpaceX's Starship rocket system, which launched its 6th test flight on Tuesday without the main event.