I was born and raised in Evansville, Indiana. With a population of about 120,000 people, it’s a relatively big fish in a small pond. You have to drive two hours to get to a city that’s larger (Louisville, Kentucky), and you’re unlikely to see very many people on that barren stretch of I-64 that adjoins […] More
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Donald Trump thanked summer break for playing a pivotal role in stopping the carnage of school shootings happening on an almost weekly basis in the United States. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders explained what this meant in a press conference on Friday: We’ve all looked at the numbers, and […] More
Last month, NASA gave me an incredible opportunity to take me behind the scenes for the launch of TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. You can read more about TESS here, and even check out the tour and launch here! Today, NASA contacted me to let me know that I was […] More
Everybody loves explosions. Everybody loves rockets. And among us omnivores, who doesn’t like fried chicken? So it’s safe to assume that combining all of these elements into one fantastically photoshopped image would be one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen in my life. And it’s true. Possibly the only thing better than a […] More
If you remember back in 2016, the European Space Agency navigated its probe, Rosetta, to Comet 67P. No big deal, right? Well. The probe had a lander, named Philae. That’s right – a lander for a COMET. Comets are similar, but very different from asteroids. They’re similar in that either one impacting the Earth would […] More
