PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to pro...

A SpaceX rocket equipped with the first commercially developed crew capsule began a critical test Saturday morning March 2, 2019, when it blasted off toward the International Space Station. There was no one on board but that capsule could be used to take astronauts into space late this year.

"Planes" movie hits theaters August 9, 2013.

Dusty (voice of Dane Cook), a plane, has dreams of competing as a high-flying air racer. But Dusty's not exactly built for racing, and he happens to be afraid of heights. So he turns to a seasoned naval aviator, who helps Dusty qualify to take on the d...

ARCTIC CIRCLE (March 10, 2016) USS Hartford (SSN 768) surfaces in the Arctic Circle near Ice Camp Sargo during Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2016. Servicemembers and civilians assigned to Arctic Submarine Lab clear ice from the hatches to allow for surface access. ICEX is a five-week exercise designed to rese...

THE NORMANDY INSTITUTE PAYS HOMAGE TO THE MEN OF EASY COMPANY
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the series “band of Brothers”
On September 9, 2001, the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers aired its first two episodes. Two days later the world was in shock as planes crashed into the Twin Towers in

16 year-old scientist and humanitarian Jack Andraka has already changed the world. At 15, he won the Intel ISEF Gorden E. Moore award, the $75,000 top prize, for his invention of an early stage Pancreatic Cancer diagnostic test. Being referred to "the 15 year-old who changed the course of medicine" ...

New video recorded during NASA’s Orion return through Earth’s atmosphere provides viewers a taste of what the vehicle endured as it returned through Earth’satmosphere during its Dec. 5, 2014 flight test. The video begins 10 minutes before Orion's 11:29 a.m. EST splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, just

From above the world of "Cars" comes "Disney's Planes," an action-packed 3D animated comedy adventure. Featuring American Airlines, the only US airline, includes the character Tripp who proudly shows the new logo and tail livery of red, white and blue. The main character is "Dusty" (voice of Dane Co

The Passover Disney Opera:
The 10 plagues came, the Egyptians proclaimed
"The Jews are all now free!" Personal liberation, like splitting your own sea. Miracles do happen, freedom comes every year Seder, matzah, wine -- Passover's here.Stuck in a rut, trapped by the grind and every time you feel y...

Marvel's "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his met...