Carrying on from yesterday's NASA-themed post, I wanted to draw some attention to the fact that 40 years ago tonight, the three NASA astronauts who comprised the crew of Apollo 8 -- Commander Frank Borman, Command module Pilot Jim Lovell...
Before I came to TMC I was involved with the publication NASA Tech Briefs as chief copy editor. Because of my association with that engineering publication and frankly due to a lifelong interest in the subject, I try to keep...
It was 50 years ago, on October 4, 1957, that the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik-1 satellite, ignited the space race, and the rest as they say, is history. According to NASA, the world's first artificial satellite was about...