The high school pupils fiddling with their smartphones while waiting for the event to start might be forgiven for thinking man has been in space for at least a century and that the amount of brainpower, determination, expense and risk it took to get ther

Space shuttle Columbia, the first shuttle built, broke up over Texas just minutes before its scheduled landing in 2003. A look back at what happened. Columbia was the first and heaviest vehicle in the shuttle fleet, described as a "brick." It debuted wit

The Wake Forest Documentary Film Program has recently finished telling the story of Petr Ginz in a new film titled “The Last Flight of Petr Ginz.” Ginz was a Czechoslovakian boy of Jewish descent who was deported to the Terezin concentration camp during

Wednesday February 1st marks the 9th anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle crash which took the life of Israeli Col. Ilan Ramon along with six others. Memorials will be held throughout Israel including special session in high schools. Israel Space Ag

Thinking about these folks today ... It's nine years since Columbia fell from the sky, ending the lives of Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon, David Brown, William McCool and Michael Anderson. The accident also ultimately led to the e

The ninth anniversary – on February 1 – of the death of Col. Ilan Ramon is being marked with a whole week of events, including a US astronaut visiting gifted high school pupils and the Israel Space Agency (ISA) meetings to plan the country’s future moves