The hold-down firing of the first stage engines was the final major test of the New Glenn rocket before launch day. Blue ...

Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Herschel Glenn Jr. is launched into ...

As a life-long consumer of newspapers, I have read many odd headlines. “Three Mice Make Radiation Ride in Model Man-in-Space ...

(CNN) -- The first seven U.S. astronauts were hailed as heroes two years before any of them had ventured beyond Earth's comforting blue atmosphere. Introduced to the public on April 9, 1959, the ...