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Huge rock engravings could be ancient borders, study suggests
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Ancient rock engravings in what is now South America, believed to be among the largest in the world, were intended to mark the boundaries of regions inhabited by their makers, according to a new study.… Read More »
Huge rock engravings could be ancient borders, study suggests
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Ancient rock engravings in what is now South America, believed to be among the largest in the world, were intended to mark the boundaries of regions inhabited by their makers, according to a new study.… Read More »
5 ways the Columbia disaster changed spaceflight forever
CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The four-part documentary will conclude on Sunday at 9pm ET/PT. Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA history, the shuttle Columbia disaster reshaped the U.S. space agency’s approach to innovation, forever shifting the balance between risk and… Read More »
Last Flight documentary will end on CNN
Forty-three years after the space shuttle Columbia touched down from its maiden mission, CNN is set to air a four-part series chronicling the orbiter’s ill-fated final return to Earth. “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight,” a new documentary co-produced by the BBC and Mindhouse Productions, looks back at STS-107, the winged spacecraft’s 28th mission that ended… Read More »
Wor Bella: The forgotten story of women who combined war work with football
NASA was America’s crown jewel. Nothing was the same after the Columbia disaster
Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of the book “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.” CNN’s Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The… Read More »
NASA was America’s crown jewel. Nothing was the same after the Columbia disaster
Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley Katherine Tsanoff Brown is Chair of the Humanities Department and Professor of History at Rice University. She is the author of the book “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.” CNN’s Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The… Read More »
The space shuttle was revolutionary for its time. What went wrong?
CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The four-part documentary will premiere on Sunday at 9pm ET/PT. At its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration by keeping astronauts connected to space with a reusable and relatively inexpensive… Read More »
The space shuttle was revolutionary for its time. What went wrong?
CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The four-part documentary will premiere on Sunday at 9pm ET/PT. At its inception, NASA’s space shuttle program promised to usher in a new era of exploration by keeping astronauts connected to space with a reusable and relatively inexpensive… Read More »