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The world’s wealthiest entrepreneur celebrated another milestone in human exploration on the weekend anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ triumphant arrival in the Americas in 1492. But while the Spanish were supportive of the 15th-century…

After so many months of dithering, fumbling, and excuse-making, NASA finally announced it has a plan to bring back stranded astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore — next year. The two astronauts were originally supposed…

Much like the character Major Tom in David Bowie’s classic hit “Space Oddity,” two NASA astronauts, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, are currently “sitting in a tin can, far above the world” with little hope of landing back…

On Monday, the United States will experience the totality, a full solar eclipse that will move from Mexico into Texas before crossing 14 states and exiting into Canada. Though we previously had a total eclipse in 2017, we will not get…

SHEBOYGAN, WI—Cowering with visible terror as the demand reverberated from the dank, cavernous space, Ricker family sources confirmed Friday that a deep bellow of “I’m hungry” had rolled out of their teenage son Caleb’s animal-bone-filled…

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Washington was whipped up into a frenzy this week with news about the Russians pressed full-blown ahead with a Soviet-style arms race engineering nukes to target satellites in space. The fact that lawmakers would be surprised raises more…

SpaceX called the Starship’s second test flight on Nov. 18 a “success,” and Elon Musk predicted that the interplanetary rocket would bring about a “fork in the road of human destiny.” The Starship has the potential to make all…

Frank Borman, who died last Tuesday at the age of 95, had a long and storied career. He graduated from West Point and served a dozen years in the Air Force before joining the astronaut corps in 1962. Borman served as the sole astronaut…

With the letters GPS, we instantly recognize an innovation that has revolutionized our lives. The concept was born half a century ago in a sweltering room at the Pentagon over Labor Day weekend in 1973. That’s the genesis of the concept for…