On June 14, 1949, a rhesus monkey named Albert II was launched into space aboard a V-2 rocket from White Sands, New Mexico.

The modest rocket carries both a barometer and a ... Credit: NASA April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union becomes the first man in space, completing a single, 108-minute orbit aboard ...

But about four minutes into the flight, shortly after the rocket’s first stage had dropped away, Clay Walker, the launch director for Relativity Space, said on the company’s webcast that a ...

With redesigned engine components, Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket ... of space on Tuesday with a package of scientific research and technology demonstration experiments. This was the first ...

Gregg Newton/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos’ space company sent its first rocket into orbit.