When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Two U.S. cents, as packaged for flight, are now the latest pennies to be flown into space on NASA missions. | Credit: NASA/collectSPACE.com Nowadays they say that a penny doesn’t get you very far. NASA has now added … Read more
In the final days of World War II, one of Hitler’s most brilliant rocket scientists came up with an ambitious plan to attack America. Eugen Sänger’s design, called the Silbervogel or “Silver Bird”, was part rocket, part spacecraft. Shaped like a flattened paper airplane, it would fly from Germany into low Earth orbit; from there … Read more
The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: the last flight‘ reveals the events that ultimately led to disaster. The four-part documentary concludes Sunday at 9:00 PM ET/PT. Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the U.S. space agency’s approach to innovation, changing how it balanced risk with the … Read more
The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: the last flight‘ reveals the events that ultimately led to disaster. The four-part documentary concludes Sunday at 9:00 PM ET/PT. Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the U.S. space agency’s approach to innovation, changing how it balanced risk with the … Read more
Richard “Dick” Truly, one of the first astronauts to fly the space shuttle and later led NASA as its eighth administrator, has died at the age of 86. Truly’s death on Tuesday (Feb. 27) was confirmed by the Association of Space Explorers, a professional organization for the world’s astronauts and cosmonauts, which considered Truly a … Read more