Edward White, who made America's first spacewalk and died in a spacecraft fire, is among the latest aviation and space pioneers inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame. ...more

July 19, 2009

When the first of many loud alarms sounded on the space shuttle Columbia, the seven astronauts had about a minute to live, though they didn't know it. ...more

December 31, 2008

A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to "lethal trauma" as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. ...more

December 30, 2008

What Parrotheads are to Jimmy Buffett, Plaidheads are to The Plaids - the fictional guy group from the off-Broadway hit "Forever Plaid." ...more

July 14, 2008

HUDSON -- The off-Broadway musical comedy "Forever Plaid" is a revue of the close-harmony groups such as the Four Aces and Four Freshmen that became popular in the 1950s. The musical concerns the Plaids, a quartet whose members are killed in a collision with a bus filled with school girls on their way to see the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show." ...more

June 11, 2008

Still on "a major high" from their successful solar wing repair, the 10 astronauts aboard the linked shuttle Discovery and International Space Station cried as they hugged goodbye Sunday and closed the door between them. ...more

November 5, 2007