Space launch vehicles are designed to transport payloads ... include liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (used in the Space Shuttle main engines), or solid propellants (used in some rocket boosters).

SpaceX fired up its next Starship and booster for an engine test before the rocket's upcoming launch to space.

The NASA-developed flight software for the agency’s Space Launch ... and the vehicle design is much closer to a finished product than the other super-heavy launch vehicle system being developed ...

The successful launch ... The Falcon Heavy rocket carried the X-37B vehicle, built by Boeing, into space. This vehicle, roughly the size of a small bus, resembles a miniature space shuttle.

Space history curator ... LC-39 to the winged vehicle. KSC stacked the much shorter shuttle inside the tall bays of the VAB and took the gantry tower off the launch platform and installed it ...

All 33 Raptor engines of SpaceX's 233-foot (71-meter) Super Heavy booster were ignited last weekend for the vehicle's launch simulation run. "Full duration static fire test of Super Heavy," SpaceX ...