OSU set to spread Buckeye joy into outer space. Ohio State University is space-bound after sending up the first rocket called CubeRRT successfully into space. The rocket was carrying a satellite and supplies early Monday morning NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. All will be heading for the International Space Station. Not only will […]
Air Force Maj. Robert Lawrence Jr. became the first black astronaut and trailblazer in STEM. NASA recently honored Lawrence for his contributions to space exploration at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Los Angeles Times reported. The full honors come 50-years after his death. Lawrence was part of a classified military space program in the 1960s called […]
Nasa opens a new computer research center named after the woman who helped astronauts reach space. After the movie Hidden Figures, many of us have learned that was African American women who help get the USA in outer space. Now Nasa is honoring one of the heroes Katherine G. Johnson by naming a new computer research […]
According to ABC News former NASA astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn has passed away at the age of 95 in his home state of Ohio after being treated at the James Cancer Hospital on the campus of The Ohio State University. Â Glenn served as senator of the Ohio for four terms but […]
The federal space agency NASA ushered in a new era by integrating workplaces across several regions in the Deep South. Morgan Watson, considered NASA’s first…
Charles Bolden Jr., NASA’s first Black administrator, was nominated for the post in 2009 by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate that same…
Aprille Ericsson is award-winning aerospace trailblazer who achieved a pair of historic firsts as part of her engineering career. Dr. Ericsson is the first woman…
When I saw this, I immediately thought about when the Challenger went up in flames back in 1986. According to CNN, an unmanned NASA rocket exploded early Tuesday evening along the eastern Virginia coast, causing a huge fireball but no apparent deaths. According to NASA, the Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft […]
If you don’t think girls and women are good at math, think again. Physicist and mathematician Katherine G. Johnson made a significant mark in history…
On February 9, 1995, Dr. Bernard Harris became the first African American to perform a spacewalk during the second of his two Space Shuttle flights.…
