At every turn of Endeavour's stop-and-go commute through urban streets, a constellation of spectators trailed along as the space shuttle ploddingly nosed past stores, schools, churches and front yards. Having escaped out of Earth's atmosphere two dozen times, Endeavour's slow-speed trek Saturday to its retirement center took it through the working-class streets of southern Los Angeles. In an instant, the shuttle crossings became part of history. Read More

With the passing of Neil Armstrong, I wanted to share this story with you. As a native San Franciscan, I was a paperboy for The San Francisco Examiner in 1969. The contest at that time was to get two new subscribers in June, and the reward was two tickets to the Giants vs. Los Angeles Dodgers game on July 20, 1969. I did my part, and that day, I was off to Candlestick Park with my dad as a proud son. This was the first time I was taking him to a game! Read More

The Mars rover Curiosity, on a quest for signs the Red Planet once hosted the building blocks of life, streaked into the home stretch of its eight-month voyage on Sunday nearing a make-or-break landing attempt NASA calls its most challenging ever.Curiosity, the first full-fledged mobile science laboratory ever sent to a distant world, was scheduled to touch down inside a vast, ancient impact crater on Sunday at 10:31 p.m. Pacific time. Read More

With a seemingly ever-present fog enveloping the hub, flying into San Francisco International Airport can be a particularly cruel guessing game for airlines and passengers. However, thanks to a new program being developed by NASA, airlines will soon have more precise information on when that fog will clear — keeping hundreds of thousands of passengers from being stuck taxiing on tarmacs or stranded at distant airports wondering when their SFO-bound flight will depart. Read More