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13 best day trips from Houston Luke Waterson Lake Livingston State Park, Texas. ©Getty Houston, the USA’s fourth-largest metropolis, can seem so huge that thoughts of the myriad sights and landscapes just beyond its edges often fade from your mind’s eye. But if you are in Houston for a few days, a day trip to some of the exceptional cities, museums, beaches, lakes and wildernesses nearby will make your time here a truly memorable one.   These thirteen best day trips take you ar...

Alerts What our sperm would see if we left it on the moon - the view of the Earth appears over the Lunar horizon as the Apollo 11 Command Module comes into view of the Moon before Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. leave in the Lunar Module, Eagle, to become the first men to walk on the Moon’s surface. Photo: NASA/Newsmakers (Getty Images) We’ve been writing so much about Mars lately that we almost forgot about another familiar friendly face in the sky: the moon. Our constant c...

WILDERS WHOLE WORLD: Thoughts on the Mars landing By Dwayne Wilder Special to the Herald Democrat NASA landed a Mars rover on the Red Planet in February; one named Perseverance, which will do more to explore and study our nearest celestial planet than any other in our history. It is the first step in putting humans on a different planet for the first time. The American Space Program has been trudging along for decades after an exciting 1960s and 1970s. Yes, we had the Space Shuttle and the Inte...

The new generation of space suits for NASA’s upcoming Artemis mission will use advanced technology to safely put astronauts back on the moon. An Ashland resident is on the team.

Credit Sarah Mitchell, The Trail Blazer The new generation of space suits for NASA’s upcoming Artemis mission will use advanced technology to safely put astronauts back on the moon and an Ashland resident is on the team. Stephanie Johnston, an engineer for NASA’s new space suit, the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), has been working to improve the sustainability of astronaut safety, life support and mobility for NASA’s return to the lunar surface. “If you go back and look at some of t...

On This Day in Space! Feb. 26, 1966: 1st launch of Saturn 1B rocket Space 26/02/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space NASAs first Saturn 1B rocket launches into space carrying the first Apollo spacecraft on Feb. 26, 1966. On Feb. 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight.  Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful upper stage, it was designed to carry the Apollo Command/Serv...

History beyond the clouds: 1968 Earthrise photo and lunar landing images are among 600 snaps of space travel through the ages that are set to fetch thousands at auction Earthrise image, taken during NASAs Apollo 8 mission, showed planet as it looked from 240,000 miles away Collection has been compiled from several unnamed sellers by auctioneers Dreweatts of Newbury, Berkshire Also seen among the collection is the first man to make it into space, the Soviet Unions Yuri Gagarin And the first prim...

Often, I have written of my love of aviation. Growing up in McAlester, I was an aviation/NASA geek. So, it comes to no surprise my admiration and appreciation of the Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford. Let me just point out, if you have never been, I would strongly encourage you to do so at some point. And if it has been awhile since you were there, it is time to go back! Named for Oklahoma native Gen. Thomas P. Stafford, the Smithsonian-affiliated museum is in the process of add...

Commander Shepard visited the lunar surface during the Apollo 14 mission  Nearing the end of his moon walk, he hit two golf balls using a makeshift club One went into a crater — but the ultimate location of the other was unclear Image expert Andy Saunders digitally enhanced images taken on the mission The second ball, he revealed, travelled a mere 40 yards before coming to rest 

Updated on February 4, 2021 at 12:01 pm NBCWashington Northrop Grumman is naming their next spacecraft headed to the International Space Station in honor of NASA mathematician and American hero Katherine Johnson. Johnson, a Black woman, is most famous for her handwritten computations that played a pivotal role in the United States achieving manned spaceflight in the 1960s. The story of the brilliant work performed by Johnson and two of her colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, was told ...