James Bernard Bain, free of steel bars and having to stare at the outside world through chain link and concertina wire, stood outside the Polk County Courthouse on Thursday morning, wrapped in the warmth of freedom. ...more

December 18, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel is telling the White House. ...more

October 22, 2009

It's the 40th anniversary of the start of a mission that sent humans around the moon for the first time and set the stage for the first landing on the moon. ...more

December 21, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science. ...more

December 20, 2008

Re: John Herbert's column, "NASA Pork Just More Space Junk," in the Nov. 16 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

November 22, 2008