November 1, 2021 8:08 am | 2 comments
Arturo Campos, BS ’56, was fast asleep at his Houston home when he got a call from NASA that would thrust him into the history books. It was just before midnight...
November 1, 2021 8:01 am | no comments
On August 14, 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Haiti. The Caribbean nation deals with quakes regularly, but this event was the largest...
September 1, 2021 8:31 am | no comments
Each year, Americans consume nearly 10 billion pounds of seafood, almost all of it imported. But what lands on a boat in the South China Sea is often very different...
September 1, 2021 7:45 am | no comments
Space is getting crowded. Over the next decade, companies like SpaceX and Amazon’s Kuiper Systems plan to launch thousands of internet satellites, which would...
July 1, 2021 10:02 am | 1 comment
It’s early on a Sunday morning last October and the parking lot outside Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium is unusually empty. The night...
September 1, 2020 8:00 am | no comments
At any given time, there are a half dozen humans zipping around the Earth at over 17,000 miles per hour. These are the lucky few chosen to live and work on...