Four lucky children in Columbia were rescued after being alone in a remote area of the Columbian Amazon Rainforest. On May 1st, 2023, 9-year-old Soleiny, 13-year-old Lesly, 11-month-old Cristin, and four-year-old Tien Norie flew with their mother on a small plane on their way to the town of San Jose del Guaviare. The engine in […]
“The Eagle has wings!” radioed Neil Armstrong from the lunar module as he and Buzz Aldrin flew sixty-nine miles above the moon. Four words. There was no doubt of their meaning: The lunar module Eagle had separated from the command module Columbia and was now flying solo. It was ready to descent onto the moon. Big smiles back on Earth, back […]
Space… it’s dangerous out there: micrometeoroids, radiation, airlessness. And coming home would be no picnic, either. The compact-car-sized space capsule would be greeted by searing white-hot flames as it slammed madly back down to earth. “In designing the command module, the one thing we had to be sure of was that we could keep the […]