As we well know, rockets are still not totally, completely 100% reliable — although ... They also are above 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere at apogee in their full flight. That last 1% of the Earth’s ...
After multiple technical and weather-related delays, the milestone Polaris Dawn mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:23 AM EST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, ...