"We were lucky to get the money to do Viking, and that was a struggle." The mission concept was scaled back to two orbiters and two landers, launching on smaller rockets and designed to stay on ...

Shares of Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VKTX), a clinical-stage drugmaker working on metabolic treatments, have tripled in value this year. Despite the huge run-up, analysts who follow the company ...

Bay Paul.” On South Bass Island, he manages homes, golf carts, and websites. He’s also completed 120 skydiving jumps, but Jeris said the top of his bucket list is going to space.

Within months, he, Krause and other colleagues began to design and develop the multistage Viking rockets. The high-altitude rockets, which were launched between 1949 and 1955, helped demonstrate ...

Willy Ley with a Viking sounding rocket on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, 1956. In his new book, Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age, Jared Buss uncovers the life ...

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on June 4 ... searching for ...

He subsequently worked 40 years for what is now Lockheed Martin, covering the early testing of the Viking rocket at White Sands, NM, to the Titan rockets of today’s space exploration.