WASHINGTON — NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc., or ATK, will conduct the first full-scale, full-duration test of the new first-stage solid rocket motor for the Ares I rocket at 1 p.m. MDT, on Thursday ...

For the first time in more than a quarter-century a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building. The Ares I-X rocket, its simulated crew module and launch ...

PROMONTORY, Utah--"This is the world's biggest solid rocket motor." Those eight words, with which Kevin Rees described the Ares 1 rocket to me on Monday, are at once entirely understated, and hugely ...

NASA and ATK unveil the completed Ares I first stage five-segment solid rocket booster today in Promontory, Utah. The completed solid rocket booster is now installed horizontally in a test stand that ...

If you follow the news around space travel these days, you'll be liable to be inundated up to your eyeballs with claims that NASA's SLS rocket, the heart, and soul behind the Artemis program, is an ...

NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket has been delayed today in part because of the number of lightning strikes in the area – 154 since last evening, NASA said. While NASA can’t control the weather, the Ares ...

This morning NASA fired off the Ares I-X, an unmanned test of the first stage of its first new manned spacecraft since 1981. After the space shuttle disasters, NASA hopes this will be the safest craft ...

For NASA's Constellation programme, using 25-year-old Space Shuttle flight-proven systems seemed like a good idea for the agency's new Moon rockets. Since their proposal in 2005, however, the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- NASA's spectacular launch of the Ares I-X test rocket last week may not save the Ares I crew rocket developed at Marshall Space Flight Center, but it could pave the way ...