After failing to reach a deal with U.S. suppliers, South Korea in 2004 bought modified liquid-fuelled Angara boosters from Russia for the first stage of its Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV) I ...

Yi Soyeon, Korea's first and only astronaut, made history in 2008 by beating out 36,206 candidates to join a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). During her 11-day journey, she worked on ...

The launch of South Korea's first moon mission is just a week away. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter , or KPLO for short, is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket next Tuesday (Aug. 2).

SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Elon Musk, successfully launched South Korea’s first military spy satellite and 25 other spacecraft into orbit in December 2023.

McCullion became the first guardian to command Space Forces Korea, the first Space Force component command in the Far East, on Dec. 14, 2022.

South Korea's domestically made space rocket delivered a commercial grade satellite into orbit for the first time on Thursday, the country's science minister said, a breakthrough in its ambitions ...

Launched from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, it was the first of five spy satellites South Korea plans to send into space by 2025 under a contract with ...

The US military activated its first Space Force command on foreign soil on Wednesday in South Korea, with the unit’s new commander saying he is ready to face any threat in the region.

The U.S. Space Force’s first foreign base will be in South Korea. Until Wednesday, the Space Force only had domestic installations, but military leaders said a base in South Korea will allow … ...

Kim will be the first Korean-American to join a NASA mission in space. He has also served as a U.S. Navy SEAL and a Harvard-trained physician. It all started with his enlistment in the Navy, where ...