Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight. JohnGlenn. Even astronauts — not just the rest of us mere mortals…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Drones roam skies of US cities U.S. police departments are adding unmanned drones, familiar tools overseas, to their arsenals, raising eyebrows among privacy advocates. NBC’s Charles Hadlock reports….
Two Canadian high school students have successfully launched a Lego man almost 80,000 feet above sea level–high enough to capture video of the plastic toy hovering above the curvature of the Earth. Now the results of their experiment have gone…
Robots – The Future For NASA? By Doug Wetzel Impossible. That’s what the 2009 Augustine committee reported about prospects for NASA’s human exploration of space, at least for the next seven years. NASA’s budget issues remain at the top of…
Private Space Flight Traveling Out of This World By Lance Winslow Extreme Adventure Travel is about to take flight, and in doing so take well-to-do traveling public where no tourist has gone before. Indeed, they will boldly go,…