Hours after his historic first spaceflight, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three retired Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for charting a path for them to enter orbit and described his journey aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft. justice.” More than six decades after President John F. Kennedy selected him as the nation’s first… Read More »
WASHINGTON (AP) – Two Air Force fighter jets recently clashed in a dogfight in California. One of them was flown by a pilot. The other one wasn’t. The second jet was controlled by artificial intelligence and the Air Force’s highest-ranking civilian was sitting in the front seat. It was the ultimate demonstration of how far… Read More »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronaut Thomas P StaffordPP, who commanded the dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first US-Soviet space connection, died on Monday. He was 93 years old. Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general, participated in four space missions. Before Apollo 10, he flew on two Gemini flights, including the… Read More »
WASHINGTON (AP) – Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who led the dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space connection, died Monday. He was 93 years old. Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general, participated in four space missions. Before Apollo 10, he flew on two Gemini flights, including the first… Read More »