Former Shuttle Flight Director who was the head of the first ever Hubble servicing mission explains what pressures he faced as well as what was the real issue with the space telescope.
Billionaire Dennis Tito describes his experience as the first space tourist to leave the planet.
Molecular biologist James Watson discusses the major breakthroughs he and partner Francis Crick discovered as they were searching for the double helix structure of DNA.
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer remembers what happened after the first successful test of an artificial nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945 in New Mexico and repeats his famous quoting of the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ for the camera.
An employee on BP’s Deepwater Horizon describes what happened to him when the oil platform exploded on April 20, 2012 and explains how he had to get a lawyer on his side to get the company to give him compensation for experiencing the disaster.
Edward Snowden, the source behind the Guardian's NSA files talks to reporter about his motives for the biggest intelligence leak in a generation. Continue reading
Astronaut Jim Lovell recounts his experience aboard the Apollo 13 lunar module and explains exactly what went wrong with the NASA mission that launched on April 11, 1970 and safely landed on April 17th.
Fred Haise talks about what it was like being on Apollo 13 with all the technical complications. Continue reading
This video shows the troubling story of Apollo 13 and the crew that was in danger due to complications on board the space craft. Continue reading
A letter from Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson describing his legendary experiment with electricity using a kite and a key: Philadelphia, Oct. 19. 1752. As frequent mention is made in the newspapers from Europe, of the success of the Philadelphia experiment for drawing the electric fire from clouds by means of pointed rods … Continue reading
