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Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dies at 90
Collins joined the Air Force after graduating from West Point in 1952.
These Moon-landing innovations changed life on Earth
We can only wonder what innovations from the effort to send people to other planets will affect earthlings 50 years after the first Marswalk.
By Jean Creighton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Revolutionary War shipwrecks get first good look in years
In May, for the first time in nearly three decades, archaeologists slipped into the murky York to assess what's left of the Lost Fleet at Yorktown, a British convoy sent to its doom during the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.
By Joanne Kimberlin, The Virginian-Pilot
Thank the Navy and Coast Guard for first transatlantic flight
One hundred years ago, in the early morning hours of May 9, 1919, a watchstander at the Orleans Lifesaving Station saw something he’d never seen before.
By Doug Fraser, Cape Cod Times
Dutch F-16 makes emergency landing after plane shoots itself
Sometimes, even inanimate objects will do anything to get out of training.
By Jon Simkins
Remembering Wally
Before he became one of the Mercury Seven, the irreverent astronaut Walter Schirra cut his teeth flying Navy fighters.
By Barrett Tillman, Aviation History Magazine
That time a Navy jet shot itself down
In this season of the practical joke, let's talk about some very bad mistakes unique to the world's military services.
By Alan Green, Military History Quarterly Magazine
This is what happened after mislabeled Revolutionary War grenades sat on museum shelves for decades
Revolutionary War fighting ended but shots recently exploded!
By Joanne Kimberlin, The Virginian-Pilot
UN experts: North Korea nukes intact, dispersing missiles
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — the country’s official name — also continues to violate an arms embargo, a ban on luxury goods and financial sanctions, the experts said.
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press
Good news for the LCS program
This week’s announcement was a positive step for LCS mission module programs, which have have been plagued with development delays and certification snafus.
By Mark D. Faram
Here’s how you can score free tickets to see Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong in ‘First Man’
The film, starring Ryan Gosling as Korean War veteran and astronaut Neil Armstrong, tells the story of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 and the decade leading up to the historic flight.
By Jon Simkins