In 1960, NASA’s Mercury Redstone 1 test rose just four inches off the pad, leaving a fully fueled rocket armed and dangerously unstable. The humiliating failure exposed how fragile early American ...

In May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3, just weeks after Yuri Gagarin’s historic orbital flight. This video explores how close the United States ...

HAM was launched 157 miles into space on Jan. 31, 1961. Selected from 40 candidates, he was trained at Holloman Airforce Base ...

Jan. 31 marks the day Ham, a chimpanzee, was launched into sub-orbital space in a Mercury capsule aboard a Redstone rocket to ...

Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is ...

The New Mexico Museum of Space History will celebrate Astro-Chim HAM and his contributions to America’s space history Saturday, Jan. 31, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the museum, 3198 State Route 2001, ...

An industrial water main break has disrupted travel, with officials urging drivers to find alternate routes as repair crews ...

In a milestone affecting one of the most scenic drives in the United States, Caltrans crews have finished clearing a massive landslide blocking Highway 1 in Big Sur. The winding two-lane roadway ...

Tartana Minerals (ASX:TAT) has locked in $4.5m at 3 cents a share to fund a 10,000m-plus drilling push in 2026, with a sharp ...