Reaching Earth’s orbit is a complex, high-stakes engineering challenge, and the Space Shuttle was one of the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to do it. This video explores the nine-minute ...

carrying a Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts on a journey no other space traveler has taken − an orbit around Earth's ...

Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in history. The US led the way with over half of those launches.