Each of these vessels was fitted with the UGM-27 Polaris missile, a solid-fueled, nuclear-armed weapon designed originally for the U.S. Navy. Since the Polaris was launched underwater from a ...

That same year, testing began on the UGM-27 Polaris missile, America’s first submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

Seven years after the launch of Nautilus, the US Navy adopted the UGM-27 Polaris SLBM, once again changing submarine warfare and presenting a new nuclear threat to the world. Nuclear-powered ...

A New Hampshire man and three other crew members from the Polaris Dawn mission discussed their historic journey to space.

Polaris Dawn was the first of three missions of the Polaris Program. Polaris Dawn was the gate-opener mission to the larger Polaris Program, a set of at least three anticipated missions bankrolled ...

The Polaris Dawn crew is back on Earth, splashing down in the waters off the coast of Florida early Sunday morning.

The Polaris Dawn crew will attempt to reach heights higher than humans have traveled since NASA's Apollo program in the 1970s and will also conduct the first-ever commercial spacewalk. The Falcon ...

Aug. 27 (UPI) --SpaceX has again delayed its historic launch of the four-person Polaris Dawn crew who are to fly father than any human has flown since the end of the Apollo missions. SpaceX was ...

Called Polaris Dawn, the mission also aims to send a four-person crew to an orbit with an altitude of about 870 miles, the highest orbit since the Apollo moon missions. The Dragon spacecraft ...

Polaris screens the global equity universe for stocks with market caps above $100 million that meet liquidity demands. That yields about 1,900 stocks. A valuation filter then finds firms that look ...

January 22 was the 67th anniversary of the launch of the USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Launched in 1954, Nautilus broke multiple speed, depth, and travel distance ...