The history also includes military history in Germany, the Soviet Union and the United States that underlay the development of space technology, along with the ongoing privatization of rocket ...

Over at Slate, Neal Stephenson charts a brief, fascinating history of the rocket, starting with Hitler’s V-2 during the second World War and ending with today’s sophisticated rockets, capable ...

The researchers discovered that the first rocket to meet this essential criterion was not, in fact, an aerial projectile but the more humble ti lao shu (ground rat), a firework made from a bamboo ...