it has engines named after the mythical wizard Merlin, and its revolutionary space-traversing capsules are named after the legendary Dragon. The thing with cool names, though, is that they often ...

A new robotic pet dragon has been developed by researchers ... “Over 200 years of intense engineering, we’ve been able to send spacecraft to the moon and Mars and so much more.

Greek mythology features several dragons, but is there any evidence that these mythical monsters were based on real creatures?

From Ancient Greece to Onyx Storm: Our interest in dragons isn’t new but taming the mythical beasts is ... to fight a menace from outer space. Core to McCaffrey’s appeal was that her ...

made its final return trip to Port Canaveral after recovering the Dragon spacecraft Freedom. Freedom's splashdown marked the end of Dragon spacecraft recoveries off the Florida coast as SpaceX ...

The Zohar, a foundational work of Kabbalah, mentions dragons in its mystical discourses ... contraction of God's infinite light to create space for the finite world. Within this framework ...

"Dragon separation confirmed!" SpaceX wrote on social media. "The spacecraft will now execute a series of departure burns to move away from the @Space_Station. Dragon will reenter the Earth's ...

As it so happens, there actually is a small story behind the name of the Dragon capsule, a mildly humorous one that may be of interest to fans of classic folk music. The impetus for the name of ...