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Testing the Antarctic Treaty’s conflict-averse culture, the Kremlin’s grotesque invasion of Ukraine may be the peace and science agreement’s biggest challenge yet, say polar analysts. Some have asked why Russia, whose icebreaker nosed into Table Bay this morning, may enjoy its seat at nex...

In July 1947, something unusual crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, spawning decades of conspiracy theories claiming that the debris belonged to a UFO.

Today is the 31st day of 2022. There are 334 days left in the year.

Today in history. 1-31

Today is the 31st day of 2022. There are 334 days left in the year.

Alan B. Shepard, Jr., first U.S. astronaut to travel in space. Shepard graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, in 1944 and served in the Pacific during World War II onboard the destroyer Cogswell. He earned his naval aviator wings in 1947, qualified as a test pilot in 1951, and

The Apollo 14 mission landed on the moon in 1971, but what the astronauts brought back could be making history now. HowStuffWorks investigates.

Kaushik Patowary May 24, 2021 0 comments The Apollo missions of the 1960s and 70s provided scientists with an exciting playground upon which to conduct experiments never performed in the history of humankind. They collected samples of rocks and soil, measured seismic data, took measurements of the lunar atmosphere and lunar crust. The high vantage point allowed astronauts to take photographs of celestial objects in spectral bands not seen from Earth. They played golf, drove a rover, conducted G...

The day ‘a bomb exploded … 200,000 miles from Earth’: Apollo 13’s successful failed mission Updated Apr 11, 2021; Lovell told NASA’s Mission Control, “There is one whole side of that spacecraft missing.” Apollo 13 with three astronauts on board lifted off for the moon from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970. Two days later it became obvious that Apollo 13 would not be landing on the moon but instead fighting just to return to Earth. “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” said ...

Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., 2017. | The Christian Post Weeks after the Museum of the Bible in Washington transferred control of 5,000 disputed manuscripts and bits of papyrus to the U.S. government, officials have repatriated the artifacts to Egypt, from where the items were thought to have been illegally shipped during the Arab Spring. The handover of the artifacts, which included manuscript fragments, funeral masks, parts of coffins, and the heads of statues, was preceded by exte...