For the past year or so, I have been working on a book that centres around the career of the German rocket engineer Wernher von Braun. He was, in his time, among the most celebrated of scientists, and ...

KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming ...

A spinoff of a San Antonio company with roots in the early days of the space race has been sold to a California firm than runs a global network of laboratories. Techmaster Electronics Inc. acquired ...

This is the dramatic story of NASA's Apollo Program, beginning with President Kennedy's ambitious deadline for a lunar landing by the end of the decade, in response to Soviet success with Sputnik and ...

Legendary NASA flight director, Gene Kranz, now 91 years old, is seen posing with his lifetime achievement award from the American Astronautical Society at his restored console in Apollo mission ...

White Flight, we have a lifetime achievement award. Gene Kranz, who served in Apollo mission control as "White Flight," was at the head of the room when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Apollo 13 "had ...

Now we learn that the Department of Homeland Security has a new program for admitting refugees — a reality show reminiscent of “The Hunger Games” and “Survivor Island.” Those books and movies about ...

Bill attended school and graduated from W Seattle H.S. in 1956.He graduated from the UW in Engineering.Higher education at the UA earned a MS and he then certified as a Prof. Engineer. Bill met Joan ...

In 1944, German rocket scientists developed the world’s first guided missiles and used them against Belgium, France and England. Those scientists surrendered to U.S. forces on May 2, 1945 — 80 years ...

When President Ronald Reagan eulogized Herman Kahn in 1983 as “a futurist who welcomed the future,” he captured the essence of conservatism’s most unexpected optimist. This Cold War nuclear strategist ...