With all the talk of lower gas prices, a full tank of gas still costs me over $100, and I use regular. Even with spring sprung, heating bills have me wearing long johns and sweaters, and the price of groceries…
A handful of goose feathers (the first five flight feathers work best), a really sharp pen knife (they’re called “pen” knives for a reason), a little bit of practice, and you’re in business if you can’t get to the store…
Gen. Bernard W. Rogers died on Oct. 27, 2008, after serving our country for over 47 years. He served honorably and valiantly through three wars and rose to become chief of staff of the Army, lead the U.S. European Command,…
Back in 1936, E. Alexander Powell flew to two dozen republics and colonies “fringing and dotting the Caribbean,” in “half that number of weeks,” relying heavily on Pan Am clippers, a flying boat. In his book Aerial Odyssey, he offered…
If you are a U.S. passport holder, you do not have dual citizenship, your U.S. passport expires in less than a year, and you’ve booked travel within the next six months, then there’s a good chance you won’t be going…
Visit pretty much any metropolitan center in the U.S. — from Boston, Newport News, and New York City to Chicago, St. Paul, Cleveland, and even all the way out west to Los Angeles and Seattle — and the chances are…
North Korea’s suicidal antics have largely dropped from the headlines, and Ukraine’s valiant struggle against Russian aggression barely achieves above-the-fold coverage. The threat of the month appears to be Red China and its almost inevitable invasion of Taiwan. But there…
It’s Monday morning at the Space Force’s Launch Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center — and it’s official. NASA has given up all hope of launching its “mega moon rocket” anytime soon and has begun the laborious process of…
Good news! NASA-funded technology, intended to develop a fabric that helps regulate temperatures in space gloves, is now being touted as an effective counter to the hot flashes, heavy sweating, and subsequent chills that frequently plague menopausal women. The phase-based…
It’s 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 4, 2022, at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida — and a tried-and-true SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket stands ready at Space Launch Complex-40. The rocket (B152) already has five successful launches to…