On July 20, 1976, a three-legged robot with a robotic arm and a set of miniature chemistry ovens touched down…
Louisiana builds rockets before it produces astronauts. NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, a 43-acre plant in New Orleans East, is where…
Most “Hispanic astronauts” roundups repeat the same three names — Franklin Chang-Díaz, Ellen Ochoa, José Hernández — and call it…
South Carolina has sent exactly three people to space: Charles Duke Jr., who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16;…
Table of Contents TLDR Every planet in our solar system falls into one of three buckets: terrestrial (rocky, small, close…
Table of Contents In June 2026, Anil Menon will strap into a Soyuz seat and head for the International Space…
The Local Group is the patch of universe we happen to live in: a gravitationally bound cluster of galaxies roughly…
TLDR Most star names in use today trace back to Arabic astronomers who catalogued the sky a thousand years before…
Kansas doesn’t get much credit as a spacefaring state. No launch pads, no mission control, just a lot of wheat…
Europa is one of the most tempting places in the Solar System to look for life, and NASA has spent…