05 Jan US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s new mission
Buzz Aldrin was the second person to walk on the moon. Since then, Buzz Aldrin has continued to live large. CCTV’S John Zarrella recently caught up with the space pioneer for some fun in Florida....
16 Dec Soyuz arrives at station 50 years after first space rendezvous by Gemini
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...
10 Dec The Smithsonian is 3-D scanning Apollo 11 to share with the digital generation
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...
10 Dec Contenders: Writers on Writers The Martian
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...
03 Dec A Conversation With Buzz Aldrin
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...
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