The moon's heavily cratered surface serves as a testament to how Earth's closest celestial neighbor has become a figurative magnet for space rocks during its 4.5 billion-year history. One of the best ...
His Navy plane spent only 49 minutes on the ground and needed a boost from small rockets to break free from the ice and take off. By Jeré Longman Lt. Cmdr. Conrad Shinn, a Navy pilot who became the ...
On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the South Pole for the first time in history. It was nearly 60 degrees below zero.