On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to go to space. Ham reached an altitude of 157 miles during a 16 and a ...

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Strapped into NASA's Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket, he went on a suborbital flight that lasted just 16 minutes. But it had an incredible impact. Ham wasn't the first animal in space, not even the first ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Addison Leroy Bain, 89, passed away in Melbourne, Florida, on January 22, 2025. It was determined that another scientist was needed in the universe to study the galaxy and ...

At the height of America's space race with the Soviets, Ham was launched into space aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket. He soared 160 miles above Earth, allowing engineers to test his vital signs to ...

The Senate armed services committee received a petition Monday calling for U.S. Space Command to take up a permanent home in ...

CNN’s Jake Tapper slammed Paramount Global and its controlling shareholder Shari Redstone for “hoisting a white flag of surrender” in looking to settle a $10 billion lawsuit filed by ...

Redstone’s 12-and-under basketball team earned payback Saturday at the Youth Center. They beat Liberty 37-34, avenging a 30-29 loss in their opener Jan. 7 at Challenger Elementary. Carter Paulino had ...

With the game on the line, Jakobe Walker came through for his Redstone 8-and-under basketball team. He made two free throws with 20 seconds left as Redstone beat 8U Northern 7-6 on Jan. 29 at the ...

A San Luis Obispo County rocket scientist who worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for more than four decades will receive Great Britain’s highest civilian honor short of knighthood.

Over at Redstone Arsenal, Gate 9 held business as usual at around 7:30 a.m. with some extra traffic here and there. The Missile Defense Agency also called its military and civilian personnel back to ...