The Project Mercury Monument located at the Cape Canaveral ... using the same metal alloy as the company developed for the Atlas rockets that launched four of NASA's Mercury astronauts from ...

Versions of the Atlas rocket would go on to launch the Project Mercury astronauts into orbit. The reliable Atlas-Centaur rocket, which flew for over 40 years, was derived from the SM-65 Atlas ...

Atlas V 551 rocket carrying the second batch of production satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper has been rescheduled for June 16, 2025, pending range approval.

and the first for the Atlas family of rockets since astronaut Gordon Cooper took off just a few miles away on the Mercury program's final flight 61 years ago. Likewise, it will be the first ...

In October 2023, United Launch Alliance sent two Amazon Project Kuiper prototype satellites into space via an Atlas V rocket. This time, though, the satellites have not only been significantly ...

The mighty ULA Atlas V rocket with five solid boosters will launch the first batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper internet satellites to low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Liftoff was ...

It begins with the first-ever launch of Project Kuiper production satellites, courtesy of the massive United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Rocket launches from the Space Coast of Florida − ...

And Amazon reports this Project Kuiper satellite payload will represent the heaviest payload ever flown on an Atlas V rocket — requiring five solid rocket boosters, its most powerful configuration.

Wilmore and Williams will be the first astronauts to ride an Atlas rocket since NASA’s Project Mercury in the early 1960s. The Associated Press contributed to this report.