Republicans have recaptured control of the U.S. Senate and expanded their edge in the House of Representatives, giving them a majority in both houses of Congress for the final two years of President Barack Obama’s presidency. Democrats held 55 of the Senate’s 100 seats before Tuesday’s midterm elections, but Republicans gained at least seven seats […]
The space industry was met with another mishap for the second time this week,when Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo tourism vehicle exploded in midair over the Mojave Desert Friday. Witnesses report the rocket exploded after release from the jet that carried it aloft, and a short time after igniting its own rocket motor. One person, one of the pilots, […]
What passersby thought was a gory Halloween prank in a Farmingdale Street on Tuesday evening, turned out to be a grisly murder of a Farmingdale State College Professor of 28 years. The remains of 66-year-old language arts professor, Patricia Ward were discovered outside of her Long Island apartment just seconds away from the Long Island train station. She […]
Just seconds after launch on Tuesday morning, NASA’s Antares rocket exploded in a massive fireball above the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 6:22 am. The failed mission was a scheduled resupply for the space station and carried an unmanned Cygnus spacecraft laden with 5,000 pounds of food, as well as science experiments and other […]