Paul Skenes Is Aiming to Break Baseball’s Ultimate Barrier The former Air Force cadet is confident he can continue to throw 100 mph and avoid a debilitating arm injury. Sports Illustrated · Apr 29, 2025
11 epically long films that won’t waste your time, ranked THE COUNTDOWN: In honour of Brady Corbet’s 215-minute epic ‘The Brutalist’ receiving 10 Oscar nods, Annabel Nugent and Jacob Stolworthy select 11 other movies with mammoth runtimes that are worth the investment The Independent UK · Jan 25, 2025
Joe Engle, X-15 rocket plane and space shuttle astronaut, dies at 91 Joe Engle, the first astronaut to fly in space on two different winged vehicles, has died at the age of 91. Engle's first flights into space on the X-15 preceded his launching on the space shuttle. Space · Jul 11, 2024
He missed a chance to be the first Black astronaut. Now, at 90, he's going into space Edward J. Dwight Jr. is set to be on the next Blue Origin rocket into space. The rare opportunity comes more than six decades after he was passed over to become a NASA astronaut. WEKU · Apr 25, 2024
‘No one had done it before him’: the groundbreaking stories of Black astronauts In documentary The Space Race, the people involved with major progress within Nasa talk about their highs and lows The Guardian - US · Feb 20, 2024
NASA unveils its revolutionary X-59 Quesst 'quiet' supersonic jet (photos, video) NASA and Lockheed Martin showed off the finished X-59 Quesst jet today, which promises to usher in a new era of quieter supersonic flight. Space · Jan 12, 2024
Astronaut Luca Parmitano on NASA's return to the moon: 'It's no longer a dream' (exclusive) An exclusive interview with the European Space Agency's accomplished astronaut Luca Parmitano, the first Italian to command the International Space Station. Space · Nov 6, 2023
6 people are confirmed dead after 2 planes collided mid-air at a Dallas airshow News footage from the scene at the Wings over Dallas air show showed the crumpled wreckage of two historic military planes. WEKU · Nov 13, 2022
Six dead in airshow horror crash after two WW2 planes collide in mid-air The planes were a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2022
Bleeding edge experimental plane could solve supersonic flight’s biggest drawback Banning a physical phenomenon associated with your flight style definitely puts a crimp on the commercial development of supersonic engines. Inverse · Oct 23, 2022
Greg Cote: Larry Csonka, ‘heart’ of Dolphins glory days, on his life of adventure — and perfection It was 1987 when the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, made Larry Csonka one of its own. He had grown up on a farm a half hour north in Stow, Ohio, one of six kids in a Hungarian family of modest means. They made their own butter.… Miami Herald · Oct 12, 2022
For medically vulnerable families, inflation’s squeeze is inescapable ROSAMOND, Calif. — Deborah Lewis rose from bed before dawn and signed in to her phone so she could begin delivering fast food, coffee, and groceries to residents in this western patch of the Mojave Desert where test pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier generations ago. Tribune News Service · Aug 16, 2022
Ed Dwight was in line to be the first Black astronaut. History had other ideas At the height of the space race in the 1960s, Air Force Captain Ed Dwight was chosen to attend a special astronaut training program. He tells the story of what happened next. WEKU · Jul 5, 2022
Woody Williams, the last surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98 As a young Marine corporal, Williams went ahead of his unit during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean in February 1945 and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions. WEKU · Jun 29, 2022
Motorsport · May 18, 2022 Every Indy 500 pace car and its driver, 1911 to 2022 Sarah Fisher is the latest in a long roll-call of celebrities and/or motorsport figures to drive the pace car and lead the eleven rows of three to the green flag for the Indianapolis 500.