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Why Did The Air Force Play With Cats In Space?

Why Did The Air Force Play With Cats In Space?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Michaelson channeling his inner astronaut.

Meet The First Civilian To Successfully Launch A Rocket Into Space

By Amy Shira Teitel

Shipwrecks And Tree Rings Extend The Hurricane Record By 350 Years

Shipwrecks And Tree Rings Extend The Hurricane Record By 350 Years

By Mary Beth Griggs

A Gemini Model with Paraglider

The Paraglider: How NASA Tried And Failed To Land Without Parachutes

By Amy Shira Teitel

What Really Happened When Apollo 10 Heard Music in Space?

What Really Happened When Apollo 10 Heard Music in Space?

By Amy Shira Teitel

William Gurstelle shoots bottle bazooka

I Defend My Backyard With A Bottle Bazooka

By William Gurstelle

This is what Downtime Looked Like Going to the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

How the Apollo lunar modules were smashed for science

How the Apollo lunar modules were smashed for science

By Amy Shira Teitel

Liftoff of a spaceship

An Apollo Lunar Landing Told Through Vintage Art

By Amy Shira Teitel

How NASA Broadcast Neil Armstrong Live from the Moon

How NASA Broadcast Neil Armstrong Live from the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

Two Become One: How the Apollo Spacecraft Stuck Together

Two Become One: How the Apollo Spacecraft Stuck Together

Geometry Tablets

Humans Calculated Paths Of Planets 1,400 Years Earlier Than We Thought

By Grennan Milliken

How ‘Popular Science’ Covered The Challenger Disaster

How ‘Popular Science’ Covered The Challenger Disaster

By Carl Franzen

Why Did NASA Choose an Untested Missile to Launch Gemini?

Why Did NASA Choose an Untested Missile to Launch Gemini?

Seventy-Ton Titanosaur Unveiled At Museum Of Natural History

Seventy-Ton Titanosaur Unveiled At Museum Of Natural History

By Grennan Milliken

Explorer 1’s 1958 launch

The Interservice Rivalry that Delayed America’s First Satellite Launch

By Amy Shira Teitel

How the Stage was Set for the Satellite Race

How the Stage was Set for the Satellite Race

By Amy Shira Teitel

NASA’s earliest Christmases in Space Weren’t All Merry

NASA’s earliest Christmases in Space Weren’t All Merry

By Amy Shira Teitel

How Otto Winzen Took Men Into the Stratosphere

How Otto Winzen Took Men Into the Stratosphere

By Amy Shira Teitel

Kepler and the Universe

Kepler and the Universe

Video: Sunken Seaplane Was One Of The First Victims Of Pearl Harbor

By Mary Beth Griggs

Was The V-2 A Nazi Weapon?

Was The V-2 A Nazi Weapon?

By Amy Shira Teitel

A Brief History of Space Stations before the ISS

A Brief History of Space Stations before the ISS

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Inexorable Rise Of Synthetic Flavor: A Pictorial History

The Inexorable Rise Of Synthetic Flavor: A Pictorial History

By Nadia Berenstein

These Incredible Space Station Concepts Never Got Off The Ground

These Incredible Space Station Concepts Never Got Off The Ground

By Amy Shira Teitel

Jack Northrop and the UFO-Lookin’ Flying Wings

Jack Northrop and the UFO-Lookin’ Flying Wings

By Amy Shira Teitel

Build A 300-MPH Ping-Pong Cannon

Build A 300-MPH Ping-Pong Cannon

By William Gurstelle

The Manned Orbiting Laboratory the Air Force Failed to Launch

The Manned Orbiting Laboratory the Air Force Failed to Launch

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why Did Apollo Lunar Samples Have Amino Acids In Them?

Why Did Apollo Lunar Samples Have Amino Acids In Them?

Ed Dwight, the African American Astronaut who Never Flew

Ed Dwight, the African American Astronaut who Never Flew

By Amy Shira Teitel

When We First Saw The Far Side Of The Moon

When We First Saw The Far Side Of The Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Moon from Luna 3

The CIA’s Bold Kidnapping of a Soviet Spacecraft

By Amy Shira Teitel

Apollo 17 Lunar Module Pilot Jack Schmitt

These Apollo pictures show the crowded life of lunar astronauts

By Amy Shira Teitel

Ancient Volcano Collapse Caused A Tsunami With An 800-Foot Wave

Ancient Volcano Collapse Caused A Tsunami With An 800-Foot Wave

By Grennan Milliken

Here Are Some Weird Facts About Pooping in Space

Here Are Some Weird Facts About Pooping in Space

By Amy Shira Teitel

9,000-Year-Old Remains Show Evidence Of Oldest Known Decapitation In The Americas

9,000-Year-Old Remains Show Evidence Of Oldest Known Decapitation In The Americas

By Mary Beth Griggs

Meet the Gemini Radar Evaluation Pod

Meet the Gemini Radar Evaluation Pod

By Amy Shira Teitel

How To Build A Ballistics Box That Measures Fastballs

How To Build A Ballistics Box That Measures Fastballs

By William Gurstelle

Can We Save All The Physical Media In The World As Digital Data?

Can We Save All The Physical Media In The World As Digital Data?

By Lindsey Kratochwill

Diagram of Korabl-Sputnik 1

Remember when a Soviet spacecraft landed in Wisconsin?

By Amy Shira Teitel

A Mushroom Cloud Made From Coffee Creamer

A Mushroom Cloud Made From Coffee Creamer

By William Gurstelle

What’s The Deal With The Apollo Milkstool?

What’s The Deal With The Apollo Milkstool?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Here’s the View from the Highest Ever Orbital Mission

Here’s the View from the Highest Ever Orbital Mission

By Amy Shira Teitel

Meet The Triassic Period’s Oddest Couple

Meet The Triassic Period’s Oddest Couple

This Is What It Looked Like the First Time We Saw Mars

This Is What It Looked Like the First Time We Saw Mars

By Amy Shira Teitel

This is Why the Titan Rockets Launch with a “Bwoop!”

This is Why the Titan Rockets Launch with a “Bwoop!”

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why the Soviet space shuttle was left to rot

Why the Soviet space shuttle was left to rot

By Amy Shira Teitel

The space plane that wasn’t: everything you never needed to know about Dyna-Soar

The space plane that wasn’t: everything you never needed to know about Dyna-Soar

By Amy Shira Teitel

Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Is Bad Science

Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Is Bad Science

By Carl Franzen

The Doctor Who Thought Bed Bugs Spread Smallpox

By Brooke Borel

bed bug with musical notes

The Bed Bug: A Musical Muse

By Brooke Borel

How Apollo 13 Launched With a Bomb on Board

How Apollo 13 Launched With a Bomb on Board

By Amy Shira Teitel

150 Years After the Civil War: Reflections on Medical Care

150 Years After the Civil War: Reflections on Medical Care

By Brooke Borel

Celebrating Apollo 13’s Anniversary in Style

Celebrating Apollo 13’s Anniversary in Style

By Amy Shira Teitel

Here’s What the Beginnings of Spaceflight Looked Like in the 1950s

Here’s What the Beginnings of Spaceflight Looked Like in the 1950s

By Amy Shira Teitel

How To Build A Roman Catapult In Your Backyard

How To Build A Roman Catapult In Your Backyard

By William Gurstelle

Kublai Khan And The Mongols Were Terrible Polluters

Kublai Khan And The Mongols Were Terrible Polluters

By Mary Beth Griggs

Once, People Thought Chocolate Could Make You Pregnant

Once, People Thought Chocolate Could Make You Pregnant

By Francie Diep

The Forgotten Artifacts Neil Armstrong Brought Back From The Moon

The Forgotten Artifacts Neil Armstrong Brought Back From The Moon

By Francie Diep

In a Fight Between a Pilot and his Aircraft, Sometimes the Rocket Plane Wins

In a Fight Between a Pilot and his Aircraft, Sometimes the Rocket Plane Wins

By Amy Shira Teitel

How do Planetary Flybys Work?

How do Planetary Flybys Work?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why was the Saturn V Black and White?

Why was the Saturn V Black and White?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Here’s What Christmas Looks Like on the Moon

Here’s What Christmas Looks Like on the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

Bored Gemini V Astronauts Took These Amazing Images Of Earth From Space

Bored Gemini V Astronauts Took These Amazing Images Of Earth From Space

By Amy Shira Teitel