Former astronaut Bill Anders, founder of the Heritage Museum of Flight in Burlington, was recently honored with the National Air and Space Museum’s Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement. The museum reports that the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum awards its Michael Collins Trophy annually “for lifetime and current achievements in aerospace science and […]
This is a Wednesday night photo of the “Flower Moon,” the last of four super moons in 2020. The term, coined in 1979, refers to either a full or new moon that occurs within 90 percent of perigee, the closest approach to earth in a given orbit, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. The […]