On November 24, 1947, the U.S. Navy launched the first Aerobee rocket. Aerobee was a suborbital sounding rocket designed to study Earth's atmosphere. After World War 2, the United States started ...

Aerobee was a suborbital sounding rocket designed to study Earth's atmosphere. After World War 2, the United States started reusing German V-2 rockets for this kind of research.

These are the motors for use with a Model Missiles resuseable flying rocket model patterned after the Aerobee Hi sounding rocket. The model is made mostly of wood and balsa wood. Operation entails ...

20, 1951, a monkey named Yorick and 11 mice were recovered at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, after an Aerobee missile flight of 236,000 feet, making Yorick the first monkey to actually survive a ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. (WAVY) – Rocket Lab announced they have successfully launched two launches from two different hemispheres in less than 24 hours. The first launch happened on Wallops Island ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Dec. 14, 1962, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft flew by Venus. The Mariner 2 spacecraft was ...