Prekindergarten and kindergarten classes at Independent Day School donned silver helmets, marched across the street and wound up on the moon. ...more

February 4, 2009

Students at Independent Day School donned silver helmets, marched across the street and wound up on the moon. ...more

January 28, 2009

A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to "lethal trauma" as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. ...more

December 30, 2008

Mary Epperson was one of those children who grew up in the 1960s, watching the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts blast into space and splash down in the ocean. ...more

November 28, 2008

A news story describing a successful launch of China's long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground. ...more

September 25, 2008

China tonight will launch its most ambitious space mission to date, including the program's first space walk, as this increasingly confident nation stakes a claim on the heavens while impressing people on Earth. ...more

September 25, 2008

Just a month after the Soviet Union stunned the world by putting the first artificial satellite into orbit, it boasted a new victory - a much bigger satellite carrying a dog named Laika. ...more

November 3, 2007