The A-5 ran on a mixture of gasoline and liquid oxygen, with nitrogen pressurizing the fuel. The key innovation in the A-5 was its gyroscopic stabilization. Gyroscopes mounted near the rocket's ...

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket took Katy Perry and five other women to the edge of space and back in around 11 minutes on ...

Perry has previously spoken up about the dangers of climate change, including in a video for UNICEF which resurfaced after ...

"CBS Mornings" Gayle King and the rest of Blue Origin's historic all-women spaceflight crew blasted off on Monday.

Our lives are surprisingly dependent upon this extremely light and unreactive gas, yet supplies of it are remarkably fragile.

Not all of it. Earlier this year, US president Donald Trump promised Congress that he would “lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond”. He’s wrong, ...

Mars might have no liquid water on the surface ... and make plastics and fuels – including for use as propellants in rocket ships. Making a planet more like Earth, by intentionally modifying ...

The crew capsule sits atop a liquid-hydrogen-fueled booster ... using an Aerojet Rocketdyne solid-fuel rocket motor embedded in the capsule. "It will activate in a fraction of a second, it ...