Photos: X-37B gallery archive

When the first Delta 2 rocket took off on Valentine’s Day 1989, ideas like navigating by smartphone and driving robots on Mars were science fiction. More than 150 launches over the last 30 years helped change all that.

The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasted off Thursday night with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale satellite quartet in a successful flight from Cape Canaveral.

Learn more about the United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket as it prepares to perform the classified NROL-37 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office,