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

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!”
Space

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

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why the Soviet space shuttle was left to rot
Space

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
Space

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
Dinosaurs

Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Is Bad Science

By Carl Franzen

smallpox virus
Diseases

The Doctor Who Thought Bed Bugs Spread Smallpox

By Brooke Borel

How Apollo 13 Launched With a Bomb on Board
Space

How Apollo 13 Launched With a Bomb on Board

By Amy Shira Teitel

150 Years After the Civil War: Reflections on Medical Care
Diseases

150 Years After the Civil War: Reflections on Medical Care

By Brooke Borel

Celebrating Apollo 13’s Anniversary in Style
Space

Celebrating Apollo 13’s Anniversary in Style

By Amy Shira Teitel

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

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

By Amy Shira Teitel

Kublai Khan And The Mongols Were Terrible Polluters
Pollution

Kublai Khan And The Mongols Were Terrible Polluters

By Mary Beth Griggs

Once, People Thought Chocolate Could Make You Pregnant
Health

Once, People Thought Chocolate Could Make You Pregnant

By Francie Diep

The Forgotten Artifacts Neil Armstrong Brought Back From The Moon
Moons

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
Space

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

By Amy Shira Teitel

How do Planetary Flybys Work?
Space

How do Planetary Flybys Work?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Why was the Saturn V Black and White?
Space

Why was the Saturn V Black and White?

By Amy Shira Teitel

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

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

By Amy Shira Teitel

Radar image City of Rio de Janeiro
Ocean

This Is What A Shipwreck Looks Like After 113 Years

By Mary Beth Griggs

Proof Of Japan’s Kamikaze Typhoons Found In Ancient Rocks
Weather

Proof Of Japan’s Kamikaze Typhoons Found In Ancient Rocks

By Mary Beth Griggs

Getting The X-15 Up To Speed
Space

Getting The X-15 Up To Speed

By Amy Shira Teitel

Genesis of the X-15 Rocket Plane
Space

Genesis of the X-15 Rocket Plane

By Amy Shira Teitel

It’s Official: Skeleton Found Under Parking Lot Is Richard III
Archaeology

It’s Official: Skeleton Found Under Parking Lot Is Richard III

By Mary Beth Griggs

The 11 Most Important Cats Of Science
Cats

The 11 Most Important Cats Of Science

By Sarah Fecht

NSFW Lunar EVA Checklists
Space

NSFW Lunar EVA Checklists

By Amy Shira Teitel

NASA’s (Un)Censored Moonwalkers
Space

NASA’s (Un)Censored Moonwalkers

By Amy Shira Teitel

How Supercomputing Is Cracking The Mysteries Of Human Origins
Technology

How Supercomputing Is Cracking The Mysteries Of Human Origins

By Andrew Rosenblum

Apollo 12’s Tuna Problem
Space

Apollo 12’s Tuna Problem

By Amy Shira Teitel

Apollo 12’S Was A Launch With Lunches And Lightning Strikes
Space

Apollo 12’S Was A Launch With Lunches And Lightning Strikes

By Amy Shira Teitel

Meet Joe Engle, A Pilot Who Flew A Rocket Plane Into Space
Space

Meet Joe Engle, A Pilot Who Flew A Rocket Plane Into Space

By PopSci Editors

Operation Plumbbob and the Psychology of a Nuclear Blast
Space

Operation Plumbbob and the Psychology of a Nuclear Blast

By Amy Shira Teitel

Operation Cue, A.K.A. Nuking Houses for Emergency Preparedness
Space

Operation Cue, A.K.A. Nuking Houses for Emergency Preparedness

By Amy Shira Teitel

Atomic Pin Up Girls
Space

Atomic Pin Up Girls

By Amy Shira Teitel

Researchers May Have Found A Fragment of Amelia Earhart’s Plane
Aviation

Researchers May Have Found A Fragment of Amelia Earhart’s Plane

By Mary Beth Griggs

Rocking A Rocket: The Saturn 500F Shake Test
Space

Rocking A Rocket: The Saturn 500F Shake Test

By Amy Shira Teitel

Dr. Strughold’s Flight with a Numbed Bum
Space

Dr. Strughold’s Flight with a Numbed Bum

By Amy Shira Teitel

A Few Questions For Steven Johnson: Why Innovation Is In Everything
Technology

A Few Questions For Steven Johnson: Why Innovation Is In Everything

By Lindsey Kratochwill

Eisenhower’s Meeting with a Missile Nose Cone
Space

Eisenhower’s Meeting with a Missile Nose Cone

By Amy Shira Teitel

Using Lasers To Save Earth’s Cultural Monuments
Technology

Using Lasers To Save Earth’s Cultural Monuments

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Why A Blue LED Is Worth A Nobel Prize
Physics

Why A Blue LED Is Worth A Nobel Prize

By Francie Diep

Our First Look at the Moon’s Far Side
Space

Our First Look at the Moon’s Far Side

By Amy Shira Teitel

Throwback Thursday: WWII Prep, Hurricane Houses, And Texas Gunslingers
Weather

Throwback Thursday: WWII Prep, Hurricane Houses, And Texas Gunslingers

By Rafi Letzter

A 1958 Birthday Greeting to NASA from its First Administrator
Space

A 1958 Birthday Greeting to NASA from its First Administrator

By Amy Shira Teitel

John Paul Stapp, a Real Life Rocket (Sled) Man
Space

John Paul Stapp, a Real Life Rocket (Sled) Man

By Amy Shira Teitel

Want to Watch Fuel Slosh Around Inside a Saturn Rocket?
Space

Want to Watch Fuel Slosh Around Inside a Saturn Rocket?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Apollo Rocketed Through the Van Allen Belts
Space

Apollo Rocketed Through the Van Allen Belts

By Amy Shira Teitel

Mapping the Apollo Landing Sites, Then and Now
Space

Mapping the Apollo Landing Sites, Then and Now

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Lunar Rover: Designing and Unpacking a Car on the Moon
Space

The Lunar Rover: Designing and Unpacking a Car on the Moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Most Aptly Named Dyna-Soar
Space

The Most Aptly Named Dyna-Soar

By Amy Shira Teitel

When NASA Repurposed the Vehicle Assembly Building for Parachute Tests
Space

When NASA Repurposed the Vehicle Assembly Building for Parachute Tests

By Amy Shira Teitel

How Apollo Flew Without Wings
Space

How Apollo Flew Without Wings

By Amy Shira Teitel

Proof we landed on the Moon is in the dust
Space

Proof we landed on the Moon is in the dust

By Amy Shira Teitel

How Apollo 11’s astronauts spent their 22 hours on the moon
Space

How Apollo 11’s astronauts spent their 22 hours on the moon

By Amy Shira Teitel

NASA’s VAB: a Garage for the Saturn V
Space

NASA’s VAB: a Garage for the Saturn V

By Amy Shira Teitel

Riding Rocket to the Battlefield
Space

Riding Rocket to the Battlefield

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Alberts, Spaceflight’s Unsung Heroes
Space

The Alberts, Spaceflight’s Unsung Heroes

By Amy Shira Teitel

Dueling Amerika Bombers
Space

Dueling Amerika Bombers

By Amy Shira Teitel

Eugen Sänger: Germany’s Other Rocket Genius
Space

Eugen Sänger: Germany’s Other Rocket Genius

By Amy Shira Teitel

The Many Lives of ISEE-3
Space

The Many Lives of ISEE-3

By Amy Shira Teitel

Want to Relive the Excitement of Apollo 10?
Space

Want to Relive the Excitement of Apollo 10?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Rocketing Through (Simulated) Space with Jet Shoes
Space

Rocketing Through (Simulated) Space with Jet Shoes

By Amy Shira Teitel

To The Moon With C-1s Or Bust!
Space

To The Moon With C-1s Or Bust!

By Amy Shira Teitel

Houbolt in front of blackboard
Space

Remembering John Houbolt, NASA’s Voice in the Wilderness

By Amy Shira Teitel

Apollo food packs.
Space

When Bacon Flew to the Moon; or, #spacebacon

By Amy Shira Teitel

How Many Martinis Can You Fit Inside a V-2 Missile?
Space

How Many Martinis Can You Fit Inside a V-2 Missile?

By Amy Shira Teitel