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Throngs Follow Space Shuttle Endeavour Along LA Streets On Final Journey
The massive Space Shuttle Endeavour rolled carefully through the streets of Los Angeles today, creeping slowly towards its final resting place at the California...
Space Shuttle Soars Around DC Monuments in Route to Smithsonian Retirement (Video)
Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital Tuesday before landing for the...
Ten Tech Innovations From NASA’s Space Shuttle Program
Tech designs to come out of the space shuttle program have permeated just about every aspect of our lives. Many of the iconic NASA...
Thousands Flock to Florida to Watch Final Space Shuttle Launch (Video)
Emotions ran high at the final launch of NASA's 30-year Space Shuttle program which brought out hundreds of thousands to Florida's "Space Coast" to...
SpaceX Lands its Rocket On a Dime– So it Can Be Reused and Launched Back into Orbit
The 5th test launch of the SpaceX Starship vehicle came with a party trick—a landing—which it stuck.
Not since the Moon landings has an American...
Hubble Is Slowly Falling—and SpaceX Wants to Give It a Boost
The Hubble Space Telescope is falling, but amid always-tight NASA budgets, SpaceX is volunteering to help see if it's possible to give it a...
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Launches Company to Clean Up Space Debris
An Apple co-founder is launching a company to clean up space debris, and not a moment to soon, as NASA estimates there may have...
Astronaut Brings Ashes and Photos of 9/11 Victim to Space to Fulfill His Lifelong Dream of Orbiting For NASA
At age 6, Chad Keller already knew he wanted to be an astronaut, but his vision wasn’t sharp enough to pass the military requirements...
Amazing Fungus Discovered at Chernobyl Could Be Grown On Rockets to Protect Astronauts from Toxic Space Radiation
Fungus found in the destroyed reactors of Chernobyl could be used as a protective radiation shield for astronauts, as it consumes radiation.
First U.S. Woman to Walk in Space Just Traveled to the Ocean’s Deepest Depth
Setting records, Dr. Kathy Sullivan, the first woman to walk in space, becomes the first woman and human to visit ocean’s deepest point—and the ISS.
30 Years After Shuttle Disaster, Engineer’s Guilt Eased by Flood of Letters
It was a heartbreaking story that launched a heart warming response from hundreds of people – helping turn around an elderly man's 30-year battle...
Private SpaceX Rocket Blasts off, Reopens American Route to Space Station
An unmanned, privately owned Falcon 9 rocket with a reusable cargo capsule blasted off from Cape Canaveral Sunday on a mission to restore a...
Good News in History, November 17
151 years ago today, the Rival cities of Buda and Pest put their differences aside and their names together to form Budapest—the capital of...
Good News in History, November 15
7 years ago, Pakistani archeologists revealed to the world the finished excavations of the Bhamala Stupa, one of the oldest in the world, and...
Good News in History, October 29
101 years ago today, Turkey (Turkiye) declared itself an independent republic, signaling the end of the Ottoman Empire and the election of Mustapha Kemal...
Good News in History, October 17
21 years ago, the pinnacle was secured in place on the Taipei 101 making it the highest building on Earth, surpassing the Petronas Twins...
Good News in History September 29
143 years ago today, Ludwig von Mises, the most influential economist of the 20th century was born in Lemberg. Today, Mises is remembered not...
Good News in History September 26
41 years ago today, the lives of two Soviet cosmonauts, Gennady Strekalov and Vladimir Titov, were saved in the only use of an emergency...
Good News in History September 17
Happy 80th Birthday to the greatest mountaineer of all time, Reinhold Messner. An Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South...
Good News in History September 12
266 years ago today, French astronomer Charles Messier mistakenly identifies the Crab Nebula with his 100 mm refracting telescope from a room in the...