Monae's acting career took a major stride forward with her starring role alongside Octavia Spencer in the '60s-set NASA-based drama "Hidden Figures" (2016). Following a five-year break from music, which she attributed partly to the death of her idol and latter-day mentor Prince, Mo...
‘the internet’ is a term used to describe the vast network of computers and servers through which the world wide web operates. The web popularized the internet among the public, and was an important step in developing the huge amount of information...
government programs such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) – as well as a key player in our story, the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). This highly charged atmosphere generated the first steps on our internet history timeline. ...
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheusis published. The book, by 20-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world’s first science fiction novel. In Shelley’s tale, a scientist animates a creature constructed from dismembered corpses. The gentle, intellectually gifted creatu...
In the 1970’s Thomas lead an experiment for NASA that used satellite images to collect information about our natural resources, and developed ways to use the data to monitor crop yields. All of this work with satellite imaging, along with her observations of other light experiments, sparked an...
From Ancient Greece to the Islamic World Claudius Ptolemy drew heavily from Hipparchus as he prepared his magnum opus, the "Almagest," and other books. In "Planisphaerium," published in 150 A.D., Ptolemy provides a complete description, almost certainly based on ideas from Hipparchus, of the...
[2] Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Minimum: NASA Earth Observatory, website article and images, September 2012. [3] Arctic Ocean: The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency, website article and map. Last accessed October 2022. [4] International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean: Produced by...
NASA Administrator and former Sen. Bill Nelson said Anders embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration. “He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves,” Nelson wrote on the social platform X. ...
published, the controversy continued for another two decades, until a NASA computer wizard confirmed my conclusion beyond all doubt. With the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8 approaching, I can’t think of a better time to share the whole story, which is told on these pages for the first time....
This is historic ground. The result of a lava flow, some 800 years after the birth of Jesus. In geologic terms, it was yesterday. NASA Astronauts also trained there to get a feel for what it was going to be like landing on the moon. Oh, and parts of an awful Peter Fonda movie wer...