In fact, British researchers had noted that the V-2 rocket was almost large enough to carry a man in a small capsule. Putting these two facts together, British researcher H.E. Ross realized that a ...

NASA The Bumper V-2 launches from Cape Canaveral in this July 24, 1950, photo. In the 75 years since this milestone, this ...

Monday, April 28, 2025: For United Launch Alliance's first Project Kuiper mission, an Atlas V rocket launched at 7:01 p.m. April 28, 2025, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, followed by a 10 ...

Goddard fired off his rocket, which soared 41 feet into the air during a flight time of just 2.5 seconds. It fell around 184 feet away from Goddard in a nearby cabbage field.

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (June 23) at 6:54 a.m. EDT (1054 GMT), carrying 27 spacecraft for Amazon's Project ...

Many pictured worked to develop the V-2 Rocket at Peenemünde, Germany, before coming to the United States after World War II. While in the U.S. they worked on various rockets, ...

First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel with a nuclear reactor that is used to heat up a propellant. This propellant is most likely hydrogen, though ...

On June 14, 1949, a rhesus monkey named Albert II was launched into space aboard a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico. Prior to Albert II, animals including fruit flies, mice, and another ...

Editor’s note: ULA Atlas V, Amazon rocket launch for Wednesday, April 9, 2025, was scrubbed due to weather. For updates and launch replay, click here. The first-ever launch of the Amazon Project ...