Kalpana Chawla embarked on her maiden space mission aboard Nasa’s Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-87) on 1997. Chawla played a ...

In 1966, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin takes the first pictures of a solar eclipse from Earth’s orbit. In 1980, the Voyager 1 Space ...

1996: “Space Jam” — starring Looney Tunes characters, Bill Murray and Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls as himself — was released. The PG-rated movie was given 3½ stars by Tribune critic Gene Siskel ...

Sixty-eight years ago today, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, into orbit. Once in space, Sputnik transmitted a continuous radio signal ...