In this age of instant global communication, it's hard to fathom that only 66 years ago this month the world’s first communications satellite was launched aboard an American Atlas rocket from right ...

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"Soyuz and Apollo are shaking hands now!" Fifty years ago today (July 17), at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT), history was made as two crewed spacecraft launched by two countries docked together in orbit ...

Congress earlier this month finally got around to making New Mexico fallout victims of the first test of an atomic bomb and the miners who dug up the uranium to fuel the weapon eligible for ...

Navigational warnings indicate that the United States has scheduled its first test of a nuclear-capable, but unarmed, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) after President Donald Trump ordered the ...