On Monday, hundreds of factors will perfectly align to create a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for inhabitants of the Mountain State. The moon will position itself between the Earth and sun, obscuring the sun’s powerful rays and casting a shadow over the Earth’s surface — and West ...
That’s one small step for interstellar irrigation … one giant leap for space-spinach, to be. “Took us a couple of days,” Will Bolyard said. “Then it was like, ‘Well, you know it is zero gravity.'” Will, a sixth-grader at Westwood Middle School, is a budding scientist ...
West Virginia native and NASA mathematician and space pioneer Katherine Johnson was celebrated Friday by the West Virginia University Libraries and the West Virginia and Regional History Center. The latest addition to the WVRHC’s Distinguished West Virginians Program was announced and ...
by Christopher Cokinos Elon Musk is the most morally dubious rocket pioneer since Wernher von Braun. And the most successful. With each, we can critique faults and celebrate achievements. Von Braun, who supervised the V-2 weapon program for the Third Reich and once calculated ...
by John M. Crisp Last week NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The expedition will boost humans out of an Earth-bound orbit for the first time since 1972 and put them into orbit around the moon, in ...
by Adam Minter This month, a hunk of space junk hurtled toward the International Space Station, putting the safety of astronauts and their orbiting outpost at risk. Fortunately, the cosmic hazard was detected early and an emergency maneuver rocketed the $150 billion station out of ...