I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took place, not intentionally, on the 20th anniversary ...

At 5 p.m., President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation. “The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the ...

If accurate, this would exceed the inflation-adjusted $201.3 billion cost of Hurricane Katrina, the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. In 2024 alone, there were 27 weather and climate ...

Castro’s endorsement of the Warsaw Pact's suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968 led to an incremental improvement in Cuba’s relations with the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. Castro’s ...

The Washington Post is rolling out a new mission statement ahead of President-elect Trump’s second term in the White House. The Post unveiled “Riveting Storytelling for All of America,” as ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

Initially publicized as a research facility, Camp Century also secretly housed Project Iceworm, an ambitious Cold War scheme to store nuclear missiles within ice tunnels for potential strikes against ...

The Challenger 300's story began in the late 1990s when Bombardier identified a gap in its product lineup. According to Flight International, at the time, the company offered the larger Challenger 604 ...

MediaNews Group via Getty Images Critics say they failed to prepare the city for a disaster of this scale — a $250 billion catastrophe — including by cutting and divert funding to lefty pet ...

"We were told we couldn't leave the room until they'd done everybody's statements," says Sarah Martin ... For example, after the disaster they say they were told the boat had not been found ...

plans to tell the Senate Armed Services Committee that he would like to restore a “warrior culture” to the Pentagon, according to his opening statement that was obtained by CNN.

The launch of Challenger on June 18, 1983, marked a pivotal milestone: Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, 20 years after Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. Led by commander ...