Apollo 8: 45 Years Later

Anyone who knows me knows I love space. Everything about the cosmos, from Sputnik to neutron stars, has caught my attention for as long as I can remember.  I’ve always looked up and wondered what it was like to be up there, or what was going on right now in a far off corner of …
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The Chernobyl Disaster: 27 years later

It was during the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986. The governing bodies within the Soviet Union wanted to conduct another test of the backup power systems of one of it’s nuclear power plants; Namely, the the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station, located near the city of Chernobyl, in the northern Ukraine. It was …
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