With the nearly full moon shining overhead ... sharing a sky-lighting ride to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The U.S. lander, built by Austin, Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and known ...

A Falcon 9 carrying a Dragon cargo ship loaded with ... passages through the extreme upper atmosphere. Even at full power, the thrust from onboard ion thrusters "is unlikely to be enough to ...

The New Glenn can produce roughly twice as much thrust at liftoff than Falcon 9, but falls short of the Falcon Heavy variant. It's 90 feet taller and 11 feet wider in diameter than a Falcon 9.