August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
During his first orbital flight on the Mercury-6 spacecraft, astronaut John Glenn noticed a strange phenomenon. The spacecraft was in orbit and, when the Sun came up, he reported with great excitement that he was surrounded by thousands of small ...
June 2015
Astronauts having a laugh
Some funny stories have come to light from US Space exploration of the early 1970s. It was the time of lunar missions and flights to the orbiting space station, Skylab. A simple but amusing trick was played on Eugene Cernan, the Commander of the ...
