When they started running out of V-2s, the United States constructed its own rockets that were similar but cheaper to build and to launch. In the weeks leading up to the first Aerobee mission ...

They are slated to orbit higher than any spacecraft since NASA's Apollo missions ... and depending on cloud cover, the SpaceX rocket launch should be visible from almost anywhere on the Space ...

The uncrewed Vulcan rocket has launched from Florida to despatch ... it will be the first American mission to do so since the famed Apollo missions in the 1960s/70s. The Vulcan left Cape Canaveral ...