Engineering the launch vehicles that allowed America to achieve suborbital flight and, eventually, land on the Moon was no ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Donald Fred Parker was a naval flight officer assigned to the ship's company of the USS Kearsarge (CV-33), the ship that recovered the Mercury ...
Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...
NASA's Mercury astronauts were seven highly skilled professional test pilots. Each of them seemed to possess the strength of character and commitment necessary to overcome apparently insurmountable ...
The demonstrator aircraft builds on Joby’s all-electric air taxi platform and integrates a hybrid turbine powertrain.