Redstone Arsenal can be a little bit like a college town on game day. Thousands descend on the installation daily like a ...

February is here, bringing slightly warmer temps and an exciting lineup of events to enjoy around town. Whether you’re ...

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

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space ...

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 ...

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

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

Ohio General Assembly members threw the state’s hat into the ring for consideration to be the new location for Space ...

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 ...

WRESAT lifted off from the Woomera test site at 2:19 PM on 29 Nov 1967 atop a modified Redstone rocket. And Woomera is once again being used to launch payloads into space, as we covered in this ...

WASHINGTON — Alabama lawmakers are confident U.S. Space Command Headquarters is coming to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville now that President Donald Trump is in the White House.