With the game on the line, Jakobe Walker came through for his Redstone 8-and-under basketball team. He made two free throws ...

Redstone’s 12-and-under basketball team earned payback Saturday at the Youth Center. They beat Liberty 37-34, avenging a ...

When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...

It was time to use their ace in the hole: the Redstone rocket, a direct descendant of the V-2s designed during WWII. The only problem was the propellant. It would never get the payload into orbit ...

The Senate armed services committee received a petition Monday calling for U.S. Space Command to take up a permanent home in ...

Because of the large available space, empty buildings, and ease of access to rail, highway, and water traffic, the Army chose Redstone as the place to consolidate its newly formed rocket program.

Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that ...