Flight-obsessed since childhood, the Korean War veterans joined forces in one of the most successful space missions ever, the ...
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Just months after man first landed on the moon, the next Apollo mission had a scare from Mother Nature. Here's what happened ...
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More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the moon, China is working steadily toward landing its astronauts on ...
Jeffrey Kluger's "Gemini" argues that the program was more milestone than stepping stone in the 1960s space race.
When legendary astronaut Buzz Aldrin married a beautiful blonde, 30 years his junior, on his 93rd birthday, eyebrows were ...
Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...
With a major US election every two years, Nasa’s direction hasn’t been stable enough to manage long-term planning. It's hard ...
Over the years they have received many monikers, some more irreverent than others: Soldiers of the sea. Teufelhund. Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children. Leatherneck. Jarhead. Crayon eaters. But at the end ...
The name itself—Wapakoneta (wah-puh-kuh-NET-uh)—comes from Shawnee language meaning “place of white bones,” which sounds ominous until you arrive and discover it’s actually one of the most picturesque ...