OVERALL. WHILE A SWANSONG FOR A HEAVY LIFT ROCKET FROM THE CAPE TOMORROW, DELTA ROCKETS ARE A FAMILIAR SIGHT ON THE SPACE COAST, OF COURSE, WITH EARLY VERSIONS DATING BACK TO THE 1960S. OUR SPACE ...

The final flight of United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket took off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. The Delta IV ...

If you want to talk about a real success story in the annals of American rocketry, you can't help but immediately default to the Delta II family of medium-lift carrier rockets. Birthed from a lineage ...

Marketed as "the most metal of rockets," United Launch Alliance's massive triple-core Delta IV Heavy roars to life amid a blazing hydrogen fireball on the launch pad, with raging flames billowing and ...

This is the rocket that literally lights itself on fire before it heads to space. It’s the world’s largest rocket entirely fueled by liquid hydrogen, a propellant that is vexing to handle but ...

The launch will end a 64-year run for the Delta family. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The era of Delta Heavy IV is coming to an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 2:47 p.m. EDT Thursday, March 28, ULA called a scrub. Previously, it was scheduled at 2:45 p.m. EDT, 1:40 p.m. EDT and 2:03 p.m ...