A planetarium in North Carolina has been nominated for Best Planetarium by USA Today’s Readers’ Choice 2025. Morehead ...

I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took place, not intentionally, on the 20th anniversary ...

Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill is currently in fourth place on the list of twenty nominated planetariums. It is the first planetarium in the south and on a university campus to be nominated. It ...

Astronauts in celestial navigation from the Gemini, Apollo, Mercury, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions were trained at the planetarium. The first astronaut to train at Morehead Planetarium was Neil ...

At the completion of the Apollo Program (and Apollo-Soyuz and Skylab missions), the U.S. still had three complete Saturn V rockets, and one partially completed rocket, in its fleet. Although ...

Colonization of other worlds will be essential generations from now. I remember when I was in school the Skylab station, Apollo-Soyuz linkup (1975, saw that live on black + white TV!), then the Space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — One of NASA's two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station ...