Over the last decade, the world of space exploration and innovation has exploded. On this episode of Next Giant Leap, season 2 hosts Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA Space, and Mike Massimino, Columbia ...

In Part 2, I reveal how I solved my casting problems in creating the antennas for my midcentury sputnik lights.

That year it also became the only instrument capable of tracking the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 rocket. The Lovell Telescope was originally known as the “250 ft telescope” before becoming the Mark I ...

On July 21, 1961, NASA astronaut Gus Grissom completed the second successful human spaceflight mission for the United States of America.

In response to the Soviet's challenge after that nation placed Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite into orbit, William H. Pickering, the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...