Daily Archives: Mar 13, 2026

"Venus is a planet intended to break machines," planetary scientist Colin Wilson once claimed, and in October 1975 the Soviet Union showed just how much one could design before nature reasserts itself. Venera 9, the first to transmit pictures from the surface on Venus, survived only 53 minutes in...

The thread of thread measure U.S. Space Force and Air Force exercise ever held in the Pacific or post-Cold War was hosted this summer, 3,000 miles of sea and over 12,000 soldiers, 500 planes, and seven allied nations. "No shock, we tested the system to its limits by bringing...

"Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet." The decade's advertising slogan summed up more than Americana it was a characteristic emblem of the generation whose ego was gauged in cubic inches and quarter-mile speeds. Muscle car mania in 1966 was full bore, and Chevrolet's Chevelle SS396 was its slimming...