Two teams of kids design and build catapults to fling a tennis ball as far as possible. Two teams of kid engineers design and build catapults to fling a tennis ball as far as possible.

NASA is backing a radically different way to reach space, one that swaps towering rockets for a ground-based launcher that whips payloads to orbital speeds before they ever see a drop of fuel. The ...

NASA is testing a wild new way to reach space - by throwing rockets with a giant catapult. Powered by SpinLaunch, this revolutionary tech could reduce launch costs, eliminate the need for massive ...

The US Navy is full of time-honored traditions. A personal one for naval aviators is known as a "boot shoot." Catapult officers, known as shooters, launch their boots off a flight deck in a final ...