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To the Moon and Beyond

In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first sustained flights by a powered aircraft. Just sixty-six years later, Neil Armstrong walked …

John Glenn aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft

Godspeed, John Glenn!

The sky is blue and the whole Cape holds its breath. Fully suited and heart racing, John Glenn climbs aboard the Friendship …

Inventing Ohio

The first airplane. The light bulb. The …revolving hay rake? From the well-known to the lesser-known, Ohio’s history is chock-full of innovative …

“The Fiery Orb Darkened”

This past Monday marked a remarkable astronomical event that you have probably heard about in the news if you didn’t see it …