It was a moment like no other for a group of well-wishers, including this reporter, standing with their noses up, squinting at the sky, at California’s Mojave Airport on June 21, 2004. Escape the White Knight mothership, the rocket engine propelling the experimental suborbital vehicle SpaceshipA The vehicle came to life, expertly controlled by test… Read More »
As a teenager, Michael Clive remembers the long train ride he and his father took from their home in Maryland to Virginia to attend the first Mars Society meeting. Michael remembers watching his father talk excitedly to other space enthusiasts about the possibility of a future mission to Mars. His son, now 39 and a… Read More »
NASA astronaut Mary Cleave, who was the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster in 1989, died at the age of 76, the space agency announced on Wednesday. NASA did not specify the cause of death. “I am saddened to have lost groundbreaking Dr. Mary Cleave, a shuttle astronaut,… Read More »
NASA astronaut Mary Cleave, who was the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster in 1989, died at the age of 76, the space agency announced on Wednesday. NASA did not specify the cause of death. “I am saddened to have lost groundbreaking Dr. Mary Cleave, a shuttle astronaut,… Read More »