Today in Chicago History: Wingfoot Air Express catches fire
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 21, according to the Tribune’s…
Anatoli Bugorski survived a proton beam to the head
On June 3, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski was checking malfunctioning equipment on the U-70 synchrotron — the…
Chinese scientists have bad news on having babies in space. But there is a silver lining
If the future of humanity lies in the vast expanse of space, could humans actually perpetuate the species…
America’s only landing on Venus was an accident — in 1978 NASA dropped four cone-shaped probes into the Venusian atmosphere, none built to survive hitting the ground, and one of them struck the surface, kept transmitting for 67 minutes and 37 seconds, and very likely still sits there today, the only American craft ever to land on Venus.
The Soviet Union spent the 1960s and 1970s building Venus landers, titanium tanks engineered to survive the solar…
On 5 March 1982, the Soviet Venera 14 lander reached the surface of Venus, ejected the protective cap from its camera lens, photographed the surrounding terrain — and then lowered its mechanical soil-testing arm directly onto the discarded lens cap, returning a clean measurement of the compressibility of Soviet plastic instead of Venusian rock.
The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long…
FISA Section 702 is set to expire. Why it matters for US surveillance
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key surveillance tool seen as vital in preventing terror attacks and catching foreign spies…
A fuel shortage hits Crimea after Ukrainian attacks on the Russian-held peninsula
Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries, depots and pipelines. Tanker trucks attacked and left ablaze along the land corridor…
Concerns mount in China’s space sector that Musk’s Starship will be a failure
There are growing doubts within China’s space sector that Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket being developed by…
Semyon Gluzman, Soviet psychiatrist sent to the gulag for exposing bogus diagnoses of mental illness
Semyon Gluzman, who has died aged 79, was the first Soviet psychiatrist to blow the whistle on the…
U.S. defeats Canada for first men’s Olympic hockey gold since 1980
MILAN — Talk about a closing ceremony. The final medals of the Milan-Cortina Games were handed out Sunday and these…