If you want to see the heavens but don't have the bank account, these seven destinations we've put together will give you a more grounded taste of space, from Washington, DC to Florida and Hawaii.
Ceding America's leadership in space, world passing us by? Uh, nothing could be farther from the truth.
By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 04/01/2013 07:50 AM EDT on SPACE.com Pioneering astronaut Buzz Aldrin made history as the second man to walk on the ...
NEW YORK — Hostess has picked a lead bidder for its famous Twinkies. The bankrupt company said late Wednesday that it has selected a joint offe...
(Adds background) By Martinne Geller NEW YORK, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Private equity firms Apollo Global Management LLC and...
The first era of U.S. manned spaceflight ends, and we are the adults of this nation now. Armstrong and eleven other men visited the Moon, but those of us who were watching, as young as we might have been then, are the space generation.
I always told myself that if I ever had the chance to meet Neil Armstrong I wouldn't request an autograph or ask him any questions about his time in space -- I would just thank him for his service to our country.
As space exploration has become more common and the number of astronauts has risen past 300, many names have faded into the background. But some will ...
By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 07/27/2012 05:20 PM EDT on SPACE.com An enduring question ever since the manned moon landings of the 1960s has be...
In these staggeringly hot and record-breaking dog days of summer, workers everywhere are stuck in uncomfortable, sweat-drenched work shirts. But a...
After the surprise that Jacob had quit "The Glass House" (Mon., 10 p.m. ET on ABC) after being sent to limbo last week, viewers and contestants still ...
By: Robert Z. Pearlman Published: 06/12/2012 07:45 AM EDT on SPACE.com The NASA control center that gave the command to launch rockets to the mo...
April 2012 marks 50 years since the beginning of NASA's Gemini program. Carried out from 1962-1966, during the feverish middle years of the space race...
Do you realize that we all have an intuitive muse available to us? All we have to do is extend an invitation.
Stephen Colbert reflected Beck's genius and self-effacement when, as host of the 2010 Grammy Awards, he told a worldwide audience, "You know the game 'Guitar Hero?' He has the all-time high score -- and he's never played it."
Tony Award-winning actress Jennifer Holliday is set to make her Apollo debut on February 1 during the opening night of the theater's 78th season of Am...
There were several pebbles on top of the headstones of the Apollo 1 crewmembers, and on top of Roger Chaffee's, there was also a coin. At first I thought it was just a quarter, but as I got closer, I recognized it as something else.
As I watched the last mission of Atlantis -- something utterly unimaginable in 1969 -- some of the old feeling came back. But it seemed, with due respect, rather generic, with a cloudy future overhanging it all.
The shuttle program ended this week just as we celebrated the 42nd anniversary of Apollo. It is poetic and yet sad. It also begs the question, what ne...
This week, the shuttle program ends and we "celebrate" the anniversary of Apollo, when humans first walked on the moon. Yet, many question if we ever went. Why? Because if we had why aren't we still there and far beyond?
As the sun labors to rise above the horizon, I join my neighbors on the precipice of a crater. We peer into the abyss, sleepwalking towards oblivion ...
"This business consists of riding bombs. And if you do absolutely everything right, you can marshal the energy to do something astonishing like put yourself into orbit. If you do even a few things wrong, it's going to act like a bomb."
Central Park lights the stage in all her glory, for summer has arrived, voluptuous and steady. No longer do the denizens of the city fear nature's vacillating affection.
The Sputnik moment for clean energy has not passed, and if reelected, President Obama may have another opportunity to do a big thing or two.
Why do we continue to funnel money into programs like additional gas wells in the New York State watershed instead of embracing newer, cleaner programs like wind and solar?
