Engineering the launch vehicles that allowed America to achieve suborbital flight and, eventually, land on the Moon was no ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

Sixty-four years ago today, a brave American sat in the cockpit of the Mercury rocket, ready to face the unknown. After years of scientific advancement and growing competition in space exploration, ...

At a rocketry club’s monthly launch, some of the projectiles flew as high as 4,500 feet, carrying onboard cameras, GPS ...