But that confidence was literally blown out of the water this morning after a Falcon 9 rocket booster dramatically exploded shortly after landing ... down a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic ...

In addition to a seamless launch, SpaceX landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket on an autonomous drone ship for the very first time. This was SpaceX’s fifth landing attempt on a drone ...

On Friday, after four near-misses, the private spaceflight company managed to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. "Fifth time's the charm," one of ...

The Navy's six active San Antonio-class amphibious Landing Platform Dock ships are an integral part of the Navy's future The flight deck holds up to four Sea Knight helicopters that together can ...

Kuztnetsov is a notoriously unreliable ship. She was built by the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and languished in Russian service after the Cold War. In 2009, a problem with the electrical system ...

In assessing how these classes of ships are sustained, GAO found 150 examples of class-wide problems, such as unreliable ship systems. These problems stemmed from shipbuilding programs not ...