U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Joseph “Ben” Bailey was officially announced as a member of NASA’s newest astronaut ...

On Sept. 21, 2003, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo ...

On Sept. 19, 1996, the Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvoused with Russia's Mir space station to deliver supplies and equipment.

Six-foot by two-foot sections of Mantorville limestone that were once the steps to Old Central School have been cut down into blocks that form the pillars to Mrs. William J. Mayo’s driveway.

Vilnius introduced fully electric passenger boats into its scheduled river transport network, claiming the service to be the ...

A group of gold commemorative Sacagawea coins, seven of which traveled into orbit aboard a NASA space shuttle, recently sold for more than $3 million.

UCLA and UC San Diego grad Megan McArthur retires at 54 after two decades with NASA. The space and ocean scientist's work puts her in an elite group of explorers.

Sept. 7, 1925: Yesterday was the hottest day of the summer. The maximum temperature, according to statistics compiled by Professor H.N. Pearce, official weather observer for this district, was 102 ...

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources reported today that water intrusion has occurred through different parts of the 75-foot passenger vessel that ran aground near Kewalo Basin Saturday. The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is fueling space shuttle Atlantis for its afternoon liftoff. Atlantis is scheduled to blast off at 2:28 p.m. on a mission to stockpile the International Space Station with ...

John Casper is a veteran of four space shuttle missions – three as commander and one as pilot – and logged more than 825 hours in space between 1990 and 1996. He completed his first mission in 1990, ...