Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the ...
Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the US space agency’s approach to innovation, forever altering how it balanced risk with the call ...
'If you work in human spaceflight, this is the worst possible thing that could ever happen.' Forty-three years to the day after the space shuttle Columbia landed from its first mission, CNN is set ...
A wave of student-led protests have erupted at U.S. colleges and universities over the Israel-Hamas War, prompting school ...
NASA’s Columbia Space Shuttle was a huge success and provided humanity with its first reusable spacecraft that could make multiple trips to space and back. On April 12, 1981, the Columbia Space ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I’m a journalist specializing in the quirky side of science and space. NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter throws a shadow on the dusty ...
(CNN) — Around the start of this century, the world counted only two major players in manned space exploration: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Roscosmos, the ...