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The tranquility at Fort Hunt Park today offers no hint at the clandestine goings-on there during World War II. Today’s ...
Today’s anniversary of the liftoff of Apollo 11 back on July 16, 1969, seems like an appropriate occasion to ponder the ...
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace. Resilience tried to touch down on June 5 in the ...
A Maui couple involved in a high-profile attempted murder trial want to keep their divorce case private, but the judge won't let them.
Luminaries like Wernher von Braun, Bear Bryant and Gen. John Zierdt, “envisioned a place that would preserve the artifacts from our country’s successes [in space], they envisioned a place that ...
As the Soviet Army closed in on the German rocket base in Peenemünde, the leader of the V-2 team, Wernher von Braun, decided he’d rather be captured by Americans than by Soviets.
Their leader was Wernher von Braun, the Nazi scientist crucial to the development of the V-2 rocket — which held a payload of 2,000 pounds and flew five times beyond the speed of sound.
Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi scientist who played a pivotal role in the American space program, delivered a speech at Ball State University in 1968, sparking controversy due to his past ...
Albert Einstein (scientist), Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright (secretaries of State), Gloria Estefan (musician), Wernher von Braun (rocket scientist), Hedy Lamarr (inventor-actress), Andrew ...