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First, Starship reached speeds close to what would be required to put the vehicle in orbit. Typically, such a feat requires speeds topping 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour).

Now on its own, the spacecraft fired its onboard thrusters to start pushing itself into orbit, mission managers said, a process that will kick off its 24-hour catch-up journey with the ISS, the ...

SpaceX successfully launched its Starship megarocket Thursday on an uncrewed test flight to orbit and back, achieving several key milestones for the first time. The nearly 400-foot rocket is the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -Boeing's new Starliner capsule flew its first crew of astronauts to orbit on Wednesday from Florida in a much-delayed test mission to the International Space ...

Space Station. Starliner lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida shortly after 10:52 a.m. EDT, reaching a stable orbit above Earth about 30 minutes later, Boeing announced.

Kenneth Chang After two trips to the launchpad that did not end up going to space, two NASA astronauts finally headed to orbit on Wednesday in a vehicle built by Boeing, the aerospace giant.

"The additional time in orbit will allow the crew to perform a spacewalk on Thursday, June 13, while engineers complete #Starliner systems checkouts," NASA ISS officials said on Sunday (June 9 ...