2014
265 articles
VideoAn eyewitness account: Wallops Island is burning
First, you see the rocket sputter, then pause suspended in mid-air and crash back to Earth in a blinding ball of flame. If you still have your wits, you brace for the blast wave.
VideoVideo: Atlas 5 GPS 2F-8 Launch Highlights
Video highlights of the 50th Atlas 5 flight. The United Launch Alliance rocket carried the eighth Global Positioning System (GPS 2F-8) satellite for the U.S. Air Force.
Rocket cameras dazzle on 50th Atlas 5 rocket launch
Onboard video cameras captured critical events during the 50th Atlas 5 rocket launch, beaming back views in stunning clarity of staging and spacecraft separation.
50th Atlas 5 rocket puts up new GPS satellite
Launching for the 50th time, an Atlas 5 rocket flew a milestone mission Wednesday in deploying a Global Positioning System satellite for the worldwide utility.
VideoVideo: Atlas 5 Rocket launches with GPS Satellite
The 50th Atlas 5 rocket lifts off From Cape Canaveral carrying a GPS satellite.
VideoReporters run for cover as Antares rocket explodes
An Antares rocket explodes at Wallops Island moments after launch sending reporters and photographers at the press site running for cover.
Russians launch Progress supply ship to space station
Nine hours after a spectacular launch failure that destroyed a U.S. supply ship bound for the International Space Station, the Russians successfully launched a Progress cargo craft from snowy Kazakhstan carrying 5,793 pounds of rocket fuel, water, air, crew supplies and other equipment needed aboard the lab complex.
Live video of the docking of a Progress cargo ship with the space station
Live coverage from NASA Television for the launch of a Russian Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station. Liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan is scheduled for 0709 GMT (3:09 a.m. EDT).
Orbital Sciences rocket, station cargo ship, lost in spectacular launch mishap
An Orbital Sciences Antares rocket exploded seconds after launch from the Virginia coast Tuesday, erupting in a spectacular fireball and destroying the company's third operational Cygnus cargo ship in a disheartening failure for NASA's commercial space station resupply program.
Gallery: Antares rocket explodes
A sequence of images from the NASA TV broadcast of the ill-fated launch of the Antares rocket.