WASHINGTON — As it prepares for its first official resupply mission to the international space station, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is also testing cornerstone technology for a ...

You’ve seen the SpaceX Grasshopper blast off, hover and land vertically. You’ve seen it fly higher than the Chrysler building and land vertically. Now you can see this innovative little rocket zoom ...

In the past few months SpaceX’s Grasshopper has done test runs that included jaunts to 250 and 325 meters above ground. The rocket has been regularly sticking its landings and has even done some ...

Walk through the brush that grows along any stream this time of year and you will see a multitude of grasshoppers leaping away from your strides. This is the season of the hopper. By now they have ...