Those of us who are old enough to remember the space shuttle Challenger disaster can tell you exactly when and where we first ...

Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but it was too late. The Apollo 11 crew had a design for the first moon landing. Armstrong's ...

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Manoeuvring Unit, or MMU. The MMU fit over a ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about poetry this week. Last Saturday, I sat in the Sutter Theater Center for the Arts and listened to 25 high school students recite from ...