Don Pettit / NASA Blue Origin launched its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket for the first time last week, and news sites and social media feeds were quick to share dramatic images of the 98-meter-tall ...

At the end of the Second World War, the United States acquired ... Onboard was a 35 mm camera that captured the first images of Earth. Although the rocket did not return to Earth in one piece ...

While not as well known as the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the “Norwegian rocket incident” is considered one of the world’s closest brushes with nuclear war. In the early morning hours of ...

As World War II neared its end ... The Ohka was powered by three Type 4 Mark 1 Model 20 solid-fueled rocket motors, each producing 588 pounds of thrust. Once ignited, it could reach 403 mph ...