The USS Hornet — an aircraft carrier that saw service in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, ...

The fiery crash of a UPS plane shortly after its left engine flew off its wing and sparked a massive fire during takeoff ...

When former Vice President Dick Cheney ‘s funeral is held Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral in the nation’s ...

Good landing, Pete! Outstanding, man! Beautiful!” With those words, Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean congratulated Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad moments after one of the most precise landings in the ...

In 2006, NASA admitted that it had lost the original recordings, prompting a three-year search by Richard Nafzger, a NASA ...

On Nov. 14, 1910, Eugene B. Ely became the first aviator to take off from a ship as his Curtiss “Pusher” biplane lifted off ...

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the ...

The Tunnel to Towers Foundation 9/11 NEVER FORGET Mobile Exhibit will come to the Nyack Marina. The interactive exhibit includes discussions with first-responders who were part of the rescue and ...

Relive one of humanity’s greatest achievements — the first landing of men on the Moon in July 1969. This NASA film, preserved by the National Archives, follows the Apollo 11 mission from its powerful ...

When you think of “secret” agencies, you probably think of the CIA, the NSA, the KGB, or MI-5. But the real secret agencies are the ones you hardly ever hear of. One of those is the National ...

CHICAGO — James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97. Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, ...