As Black History Month comes to a close, StoryCorps takes a look back at 19-year-old Alton Yates. His role as a volunteer on the effects of high speeds on the human body helped send humans into space. Copyright 2025 NPR

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Early this week, Facebook provided me with a sweet piece of serendipity when it served up a picture of the late Gene Cernan. I had taken and posted the picture in 2014, when Cernan, the last man on the moon, was being feted at the premiere of the …

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — In a sight not normally seen at the Kennedy Space Center, an Orion spacecraft sat bobbing in the waters near the facility's iconic Vehicle Assembly Building. While this particular capsule won’t be going on a voyage to the …

CLEVELAND (WJW) – It is something that one day might help electric-powered airplanes cool their systems without fluids or make space capsules dissipate heat efficiently as they travel to mars. Thermal acoustics were pioneered by Greg Swift at Los Alamos …

A new baby island is forming in the Pacific Ocean around the Central Tonga islands, NASA satellite images show. The island is forming amid volcanic activity as its center continues to spew lava, steam, and ash. Images from NASA showed the tiny island grow …