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On This Day, Feb. 3: 15th Amendment ratified
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAn 1870 print celebrating the passage of the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution...
On This Day, July 26: Truman orders desegregation of military
United Press International via Yahoo News· 10 months agoGraduating midshipmen arrive for the graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Naval Academy...
On This Day, March 9: Supreme Court rules in Amistad case
United Press International via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOn March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who...
This Iowa native is being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAn Iowa native will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame this year. David Hilmers, born...
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy: Why disaster was almost inevitable
NY Post via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoAt 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her...
Astronaut Hall of Fame inducts Sen. Mark Kelly and former KSC director Roy Bridges
Orlando Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoKENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Sen. Mark Kelly retired from NASA before his twin brother Scott, but it took him three years longer to be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. “Scott, you beat ...
NASA astronaut Jan Davis recounts career, father's POW experience in new book
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNASA space shuttle astronaut Jan Davis first read her father's letters about being a WWII prisoner...
Astronaut Ken Mattingly, who launched to the moon on Apollo 16, dies at 87
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFor the record, Ken Mattingly never did get the German measles. The former NASA astronaut, who in...
'A Million Miles Away' trailer previews the true-life story of astronaut José Hernández
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months ago'Who better to leave this planet and dive into the unknown than a migrant farm worker?' Michael...
30 years ago, astronauts saved the Hubble Space Telescope
Space via Yahoo News· 5 months agoLaunched with faulty vision, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA were a laughing stock – until seven...