Blue Origin’s rocket ship sends postcards, science and art to outer space and back. by Alan Boyle on December 11, 2019 at 10:06 am December 11, 2019 at 8:16 pm. Share 478 Tweet Share Reddit Email.

The art group Five Ton Crane is removing its beloved rocket ship art installation from the Embarcadero this weekend. The popular aluminum rocket starred in about a gazillion photos during its two ...

There is no social message in this artwork of oversize whimsy. It says nothing about local history or culture. The aluminum skin is a surprise amid the Embarcadero's masonry buildings. It is what ...

The New Shepard capsule, featuring paintings by Amoako Boafo, prior to the launch of the rocket in West Texas on Thursday, August 26, 2021. Photo courtesy of Blue Origin.

Looking at Jimmy Descant's new rocket ship, "VR Green Gamma Daedalus," is like looking at a mint-condition classic muscle car: The glimmer of the painted flake green body of the 1952 Kenmore ...

The piece was created in 2009 as an art piece for the Burning Man Festival and took a team of more than 70 artists, scientists and engineers to design and build.

SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, is building a spacecraft called the Big Falcon Rocket to launch people to Mars. Details are limited, but a scientist and artist in the ...

It won’t fly anybody to the moon, but a retro-themed rocket ship planned for The Embarcadero will recall a time when Americans romanticized the unlikely pursuit of space colonization. “Raygun ...

About 40 seconds later, the rocket's solid-fuel second stage ignited for a two-minute, 43-second burn to complete the climb to orbit. The Cygnus cargo ship was released to fly on its own about two ...