December 15, 2015 – Fifty years ago, two spacecraft met in orbit, achieving the world's first rendezvous between two piloted vehicles. On Tuesday (Dec. 15), two more spacecraft did the same, but as a matter of course, underscoring the progress made in the past half century...
For almost 40 years, the Apollo 11 command module has rested behind a plastic shield in the National Air and Space Museum. Now visitors may not have to journey to Washington, D.C., to see inside the craft that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins traveled...
I saw the future in my viewing of Ridley Scott’s “The Martian,” an entertaining, exciting and thought-provoking science “fiction” film. The challenge ahead is to transform that fiction into fact. In my mind, there’s another comforting and compelling fact about “The Martian.” It is not a...
The astronaut talks space travel, colonizing Mars and his battle against depression. You've said we need to become a space-faring species because humans face so many survival threats on Earth. What worries you most? Probably an asteroid impact. That's a very low probability, but it could wipe...
Three international celebrities, famous British actress Naomi Harris, American singer Nicole Scherzinger, and American engineer and former astronaut Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin Jr, have posted pictures of themselves holidaying in the Maldives. Buzz Aldrin, who is renowned as the second man to walk on the moon...