On Sept. 16, 1949, the U.S. launched a V-2 rocket with a monkey named Albert III on board. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...
Apollo 11 made history, but the strange gap between Apollo 1 and Apollo 7 raises an obvious question: what happened to Apollo 2 through 6? NASA’s early Apollo program involved a complicated series of ...
Why did staff at Florida's Kennedy Space Centre burst into spontaneous cheers as they watched a rocket explode mid-air?