The P-80 won the name Shooting Star for its speed: It was the first jet to exceed 500 mph in level flight. On August 6, 1945, at 2:20 p.m., an aircraft taxied onto the runway at the Lockheed Air ...

Jack Pashkovsky lived quietly in a town lit up by a thousand stars. He practiced his art anonymously. By the time he was finished, he had compiled what must be the greatest collection of celebrity ...

With three space missions under his belt — and more than a year aboard the International Space Station — NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has experienced something that very few humans have.