From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

This week, several family members of Connecticut veterans, were bestowed military medals awarded to their loved ones that ...

The American Revolution started with trailblazers facing steep odds and little margin for error, solving problems by adapting ...

During the regular school calendar students take field trips to enhance knowledge best engaged outside the classroom, and ...

The famed Apollo 13 rescue has been the focus of several movies, including a 2024 Netflix documentary. Not all the films have told an accurate tale.

Houston has welcomed thousands of visitors from around the world for the FIFA World Cup. Whether attending games at Houston ...

If you were old enough to form memories, you probably still remember huddling around a vacuum-tube television or a radio that ...

People got their first look on Wednesday, June 24 at the space shuttle Endeavour in its new home at the California Science ...

Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician whose calculations helped send astronauts into orbit and to the Moon, played a ...

Crisis leadership is a skill worth refining. During a disruption, your team will mirror whatever emotion you project, so like mission commander Gene Kranz, choose it well. It's the leader's job to ...

Jules Verne is often called the fathers of science fiction, and it’s not hard to see why. Long before NASA’s Apollo 11 mission landed humans on the Moon, Verne imagined a crewed voyage there in From ...

In the 1960s, North American Aviation was asked to work out how astronauts could be rescued if they became stranded on or near the Moon during the Apollo program. The answer involved a modified ...