In his documentary Brian Cox mentioned that the Apollo astronauts read the story of Earth's creation from the Book of Genesis from the bible.
Christians everywhere rejoiced when they heard the beautiful scripture read on Christmas Eve 1968 and saw...
Fifty six year-old American space chimp Bobo says that the simian astronaut that was allegedly sent into orbit by Iran is not the hairiest of all time. "That record doesn't even go to me," he said, "but to a guy called Shepherd B. Armstrong."
It...
London-The Neil Armstrong Fan Club (NAFC) and the Official MJ Fan Club (OMJFC) are raising funds to send a part of their members to the moon and make an attempt at the world record 'moon walking on the moon'.
They have calculated to need about £1...
The international space station is full of technical wizardry from robot arms to state of the art telecommunication devices. The cost of a pen on the ISS runs into thousands of dollars with decades of research leading to its manufacture.
So which...
Washington DC: Following in the footsteps of his famous father, Indiana Jones Jr. has completed an archeological dig to determine the origin of the large drawings of spiders and monkeys located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru.
UFO enthusiasts...
Prince Harry is to enter NASA's Astronaut Training Program. However, it is unlikely he will begin his initial two year astronaut training phase at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Texas until January as he feels he should be spending at least some time...
Washington DC - President Barack Obama thought he'd open with a joke when he telephoned the crew of the International Space Station recently:
"I was just dialing out for pizza, and I didn't expect to end up in space," Obama told the astronauts...
Knowing that the space shuttle program is nearing its conclusion, many NASA astronauts have been mulling over what to do with the rest of their lives.
At a pub on Friday night, as they watched news coverage of the Royal Wedding, a group of them...
A strange new homemade film has surfaced made by former astronaut, Eugene Cernan, that reveals the real reason we did not go back to the moon and why the Russians have never really tried to send a man there.
The film, said to have been made by Cer...
Protests have sprung up all over the world to voice opposition to everything from human rights violations to public union's ability to collectively bargain. The protests for all intents and purposes have been a success: Power grabs by dictators in Eg...
With man's unrelenting passion for the conquering of space, it was with great fascination that the population of this humble planet Earth, stood gazing at the sky Sunday last.
We were finally going to set foot upon the famous 'red planet'. We were to leave our first human footprint on that rugged and angry place, far off, yet known throughout humanity. We, as a race, would finally walk on Mars!...
HOLLYWOOD - Johnny Depp was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Jose "Paquito" De Las Patitas, in the Columbia Pictures and Guacamole Films movie Gay Jose Can You See By The Dawn's Early Light.
Depp did not win as he lost out to Ja...
UK's astronaut candidate (stop laughing!) Tom Peake has made a giant leap in his training; though not 'for mankind' in general, more for himself. And he can't wait to get back in the saddle.
The Briton was last seen by BBC cameras floating free af...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Continued delays in completing their daily chores prompted flight controllers to schedule an early bedtime for two troublemaking members of the space shuttle Discovery crew, who will not be allowed to stay up past 9 p.m. Fri...
Technicians aboard the International Space Station reported to ground crews this morning that a gigantic "X" has been discovered on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.
The "X" measures more than 150 miles across, is black in color, and reportedly lo...
A Space Shuttle mission by Discovery delivered a new Global Positioning Unit to the International Space Station this week. The new GPS unit, however, is not working. Instead of placing the station 26,000 miles above the earth in orbit, the new unit...
Astronauts on the International Space Station were angry today after they fell for a practical joke from mission control.
They were told to test a special machine which would clean up their urine to make it safe and drinkable. The world watched a...
In indubitable news, astronauts on board the International Space Station have launched a sit in for better wages and conditions. They are protesting the lack of due care and concern show by their NASA masters on Earth and are refusing to submit their...