Space

Here's how a computer science student and his father cracked the secret code

It'll be the first launch of American astronauts from American soil in nearly a decade

You know what? Maybe we ought to reconsider this whole thing about looking for life on other worlds. It would be nice to find it, of course. But that doesn't mean we could handle it—biologically,...

Nor was NASA excluded from the nation's evolution

For decades, NASA has been the kid politely asking for a raise in its allowance. Time was NASA's pocket money was huge. Go back 54 years, to 1966, and the space agency was getting $5.9...

There was nothing quite like the slang used in the early days of the space program. Saying something was "OK" would not do when you could say "A-OK" instead. Saying, "Let's get moving," when you've...