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 »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. Blue Origin’s tourism rocket is preparing to launch passengers to the edge of space for the first time in nearly two years, ending a hiatus caused by a failed uncrewed test flight. The New Shepard… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. Blue Origin’s tourism rocket is preparing to launch passengers to the edge of space for the first time in nearly two years, ending a hiatus caused by a failed uncrewed test flight. The New Shepard… Read More »
If the 20th century’s space race was about political power, this century’s will be about money. But for those who dream of sending humans back to the moon and possibly Mars, this is an exciting time of survival, whether it’s presidents or billionaires who pay the price. Spaceflight is experiencing a renaissance moment; It brings… Read More »
President John F Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963 – Public Domain / mediadrumworld.com At a party in an Amsterdam canal house in the mid-1980s, a man who claimed to have been a session musician on several Beatles albums handed me a pile of filthy typewritten pages and said:… Read More »