The Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik I in 1957 is credited with launching the U.S. space program. In the past 20 years, the space shuttle has launched 3 million pounds of cargo, transported more than 600 passengers and pilots, cumulatively spent more than three years in flight, and logged more than 366 million miles. Here are some other interesting facts about the U.S. space program. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Find out how aviation and space exploration have changed throughout the years, improving life for humans on Earth and in space. picked by tundramonkey 2 years ago

A collection of photos comparing a place about 100 years ago to the same place today picked by muppet 7 months ago

He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive. picked by Moe 4 months ago

A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying. picked by punthe 7 months ago

China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops! picked by BrownTrout 2 years ago

The topics discussed in the article range from life, space and technology and physical science. It's amazing. picked by wickedsmart 2 years ago

This site is devoted to New Years confessions. Yours and other peoples picked by rogue 2 years ago

Oct 4th will be Sputnik's 50th anniversary. Although it had its scary connotations, the dawn of the Space Age was also a hopeful event. Visionaries celebrated humanity’s long-awaited climb out of its cradle, and pragmatists soon savored the benefits of communications and weather satellites. The evolution of the space program continues to be dramatic. In a decade or so, it will be hard... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 11 months ago

A US soldier has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering three detainees during a raid on a suspected al-Qaeda compound in Iraq last year. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

Scheduled for launch in 2013, the Webb telescope is widely regarded as the premier observatory of the next decade. It is an infrared telescope, which means it senses the heat of stars and galaxies millions and even billions of light years away. picked by suebe 1 year ago

A court in N'Djamena, Chad, has sentenced six aid workers from the Zoe's Ark organisation to eight years of hard labour in relation to the kidnapping one hundred and three children and attempting to take them out of the country (mostly into Europe) picked by pocksucket 8 months ago

Austrian authorities have now confirmed that 73-year-old Joseph Fritzl, who fathered seven children by the daughter he kept in a dungeon and repeatedly raped for 24 years, will get maximum of 15 years picked by deepcleanfun 3 months ago

The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said Thursday. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A period of intense global warming 55 million years ago was caused by massive volcanic eruptions that split apart Greenland and north-west Europe, scientists believe. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A Chinese man lived with a large shard of glass hidden under his right eye for six years. Xiao Zhu, 22, had the eye injured by a beer bottle during a fight six years ago in Jinjiang city. picked by misswinkle 12 months ago

80 - 90 years of life in just 40 sec, life is amazing and short live it to the max. 40 seconds represent how short our life is and how fast it goes away. picked by Neiako 2 years ago

For the last 31 years, Charles Free has lived an ordinary life. He fell in love, married and raised two children. He spent more than 20 years in the Las Vegas construction business, working his way up to project manager. His family calls him a caring man, a model citizen. picked by dollyllama 6 months ago

Although the Korean War only lasted three years, the cast of M*A*S*H was with us every week for eleven years. The final episode on February 28, 1983 was the most watched episode in American TV ever, drawing 106 million viewers, or 77% of the audience that night. It’s been twenty-five years since we said Goodbye, Farewell and Amen; let’s see what the gang has been up to since then. picked by 2longdogs 6 months ago