Soon, humans will once again travel beyond Earth orbit and head towards our planet’s constant companion in the sky, the Moon, as part of the upcoming Artemis II mission. Leading the intrepid explorers ...

The story of Christina Koch’s journey from childhood dreams of being an astronaut to floating outside the International Space Station sounds like a classic tale of the modern age. And soon, she will ...

The Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing (as a ...

Soon, four astronauts will launch on a mission to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The mission, called Artemis II, is the second mission — and first crewed mission — of ...

Capt. Cesar “Rico” Rodriguez looked to his left. He saw the other airplane up close: green and brown camouflage and a bright Iraq flag painted on the tail. No doubt about it: That was a MiG-29, the ...

Pilotless aircraft have been around longer than you might think. In 1898, newspapers heralded the dawn of a new age with the invention of a device that would “render fleets and guns useless.” Physical ...

More than a century after they invented the airplane, Wilbur and Orville Wright are still a part of our national cultural identity and the Wright Flyer remains an icon of ingenuity and technical ...

The Saturn V rocket, the launch vehicle for the Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s and 1970s, remains the largest and heaviest rocket ever successfully launched. It stood 363 feet tall (taller than ...

If you have read the book The Right Stuff or watched the movie with the same name, you may know a thing or two about the Mercury program—which was NASA’s first human spaceflight program. And of course ...

For nearly 50 years after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union waged the Cold War—locked in a state of political and military tension. No large-scale wars erupted during this period, ...

We will never know exactly what private pilot Kenneth A. Arnold saw 75 years ago while flying past Mt. Rainier on June 24, 1947. What he said he saw, and spent the rest of his life trying to explain, ...

At 10:35 a.m., on December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made history in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. They made the first powered, controlled flight of a heavier-than-air flying machine. It was ...