Getting to orbit used to mean building a rocket, launching it once, and watching it burn up or sink to the bottom of the ...

Getting to space is no longer just a matter of building a rocket and launching it once. Reusable boosters, new launch vehicles and a growing commercial space industry are reshaping the path to orbit — ...

At the University of Cincinnati’s Hypersonics Lab, students pursue new technology for high-speed travel and exploration. Aerospace engineering has always had a preoccupation with speed. Now ...

High school teams from California to Virginia are hard at work on plans for space travel, designing rockets they will build and launch toward the heavens next spring with the help of NASA’s Marshall ...

Frank Malina was a lot of things. The Texas-born aeronautical engineer co-designed the first jet-assisted take-off (Jato) rocket and the US’s first operational high-altitude rocket. He co-founded and ...

The team at the Pawnee National Grasslands launch site. Blastoff! The rocket soared over the prairie, its unique engine screaming in unison with cheers from more than two dozen students. The months of ...