In an era where we can watch rockets land on their tails Buck Rogers-style live on YouTube, it’s difficult to imagine a time when even the most basic concepts of rocketry were hotly debated.

Michael Moody (second left) said he felt "quite emotional" when the stone with his mother's name on was unveiled A memorial stone has been unveiled to honour victims of a Nazi German V-2 rocket ...

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. When they started ...

Man-made meteorites will be carried aloft in an Army version of the German V-2 rockets, it was announced by Dr. Fred L. Whipple, of the Harvard College Observatory today. These rockets will be ...