Launching a rocket into space is one of humankind's crowning achievements. Learn about how rockets work, what happens during a launch, and how centuries of i...

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket – collectively referred to as Starship – represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond.

2025年2月4日 · A rocket is used to carry a spacecraft from Earth’s surface to space, usually to low Earth orbit or beyond, and is sometimes called a launch vehicle. Although rockets may appear similar, no two are alike because they are complex devices with millions of pieces and systems that must be calculated and constructed to work together.

2015年7月9日 · Step One: Know What Your Rocket Needs to Do. In order to know what kind of rocket you’re going to build, you need to know its requirements. For the sake of this hypothetical example, let’s say the new rocket you need to build is to be designed for the purpose of human exploration of deep space.

Starship is a two-stage fully reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. On 20 April 2023, with the first Integrated Flight Test, Starship became the most massive and most powerful vehicle ever to fly. [10] .

2020年5月27日 · During the Cold War space race, the U.S. strove to beat the Soviet Union's Vostok capsule with its own crewed vehicle in Project Mercury. The Soviet Union met the milestone first with Gagarin's...

2023年11月20日 · Flying model rockets is a relatively safe and inexpensive way for students to learn the basics of forces and the response of a vehicle to external forces. Students can also learn some of the basics of full-scale rocket operation and performance. On this page, we compare and contrast real rockets and model rockets.

NASA and SpaceX have successfully launched a rocket carrying astronauts to ISS, the first ever commercial mission to do so. ...more.

Unlike the once-forlorn Apollo-era Saturn V rocket (in Houston), retired space shuttles must be kept indoors. NASA/JSC /

The development of real rocket ships, from the large-scale MV Independence designed for space shuttle operations to the cutting-edge micro/nanoscale rockets, showcases the diverse and innovative approaches in rocket science and technology.