Aerospace
35th Annual Space Symposium Brings World Together Around One Unifying Issue
Boeing 737 Max Makes Emergency Landing after FAA Grounding
In the wake of two fatal airline crashes in less than five months involving Boeing’s modern 737 Max (8 and 9) airplanes —which were the emerging workhorse for major airline fleets worldwide—pilots transporting one such plane were forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday afternoon.
Two Americans to Make First All-Female NASA Spacewalk
On July 17, 1984, during her second space mission, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya of the Soviet Union became the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
Blackbird Spotting: How the SR-71 Gave the U.S. Intelligence Superiority
As a military brat, I’ve seen stranger things growing up on military bases around the world. Few experiences topped the first time I saw the ultra-secret SR-71 Blackbird. My Father, a young Navy lieutenant commander, was operating the range and flying search-and-rescue while stationed at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada.
IMAX Film Vividly Details Apollo 11 Historic Moon Landing
SpaceX Success Prepares US for Return to Manned Launches
Nuclear Missile Trains Could Have Destroyed the World
By the early 1980s, heightened Cold War paranoia led many military leaders in the United States and the Soviet Union to question the survivability of stationary nuclear missile silos in the event of a full-scale nuclear exchange.
