The launch of NASA's upcoming megarocket will be even louder, but the space agency has taken precautions to suppress the noise. Reading time 3 minutes On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) ...

I’ve always found it interesting how quickly NASA/Huntsville/Von Braun were able to scale to the Saturn V. Less than ten years from launching a small LEO satellite using a Jupiter-C first stage ...

I think it was dropped from a bomber, with a rather large parachute to give the bomber time to get away. I recently read a description of what it was like to try to fly a Canberra bomber through a ...