Launching rockets may seem like a lofty goal achieved only at major companies like NASA and SpaceX, yet UC Santa Barbara ...

Rocket Project at UCLA spent hours across months building a fuel tank. Project Ares, Rocket Project’s senior team, built a prototype tank with liquid oxidizer and fuel to test what pressures it could ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From the tragedy of the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 to the now-routine return of commercial spacecraft, heat shields — formally called thermal protection systems — are ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Five Southern California Girl Scouts are getting ready to soar. They weren't able to blast off into space -- but their science projects did! It's all part of the "Making Space ...

The students traipsed down into the depths of the quarry on a frigid night in February 2020 to fire their liquid-fuelled rocket engine. It was an ambitious goal, less generously characterized as ...

Liftoff is targeted for Thursday, Sept. 18 from the company's Launch Site One in rural West Texas. Blue Origin will provide a webcast of the launch beginning about 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled ...