States like Florida, Texas and California are no strangers to routine rocket launches − but New Mexico? Spacecraft also sometimes get off the ground from the state. Space news coverage may be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three rockets for the TOMEX+ mission sits on a launcher at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. U.S. citizens in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the three rockets for the TOMEX+ mission sits on a launcher at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Photo by Danielle ...

NASA launched a sounding rocket, the SNIFS, to study the sun's chromosphere. The rocket reached an altitude of 215 miles and gathered data for approximately eight minutes. Preliminary reports indicate ...

The 18th annual International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), organized by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA), is being held June 9-14 at Spaceport Midland. VisitMidland, the ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, VA– Three TOMEX+ mission sounding rockets were successfully from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Aug. 28. The rockets took off in succession starting at approximately 10:43 p.m., ...

Click to open image viewer. Project Far Side was a series of six low-cost, all-solid-fuel, four-stage, balloon-launched sounding rockets, each launched from a carrier 200 foot (62 m) diameter balloon, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is the Aerobee 150 sounding ...

NASA is set to launch three small rockets into the upper atmosphere late Monday, and some people on the East Coast may be able to see colorful vapor trails that will be released shortly after liftoff.