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NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson splashed down safely in the Pacific early on Tuesday after her fifth trip to the International Space Station, joined by crewmates from India, Poland ...

I spent a year in Antarctica. Here’s what I learned living through nine months of darkness and -112F temperatures - IN FOCUS: Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research ...

Wikimedia Commons/Francine Schroeder photo for Smithsonian Institution The 1950 Smokey Bear Rescue On May 9, 1950, ...

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Giuseppe Zangara was born in 1900 in Calabria, Italy. He grew up poor with an abusive father and began working at age six.