The first photo of Yuri Gagarin after his historic spaceflight. [credit: Russian Government ] Sixty years ago today, a single Soviet man climbed into a small spherical capsule at a secretive spaceport in modern-day Kazakhstan. A Vostok-K rocket sent the capsule, carrying Yuri Gagarin, into low orbit with an apogee of 327 km. Gagarin would […]
Enlarge / Foldable devices like the Galaxy Z Fold3 5G (above) helped Samsung keep its top spot. (credit: Samsung ) Component shortages have been wreaking havoc on the tech industry since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and smartphones are no outlier. Decelerated production schedules have given way to smaller stock and delayed launches. All of […]
Expand / Flight Director James M. (Milt) Heflin, at Mission Control throughout the trip of STS-26 at 1988. The telephone call in the”Mountain” into Mission Control at Houston arrived at just about the worst possible moment. This was the wee hours of Thanksgiving early in 1991. In space, the team members on board shuttle Atlantis […]