Big Rockets, Massive Asteroids, and Space Highlights for 2022

Space flight offered Endless glasses in 2021. Sometimes, it was too overwhelming. Two new rovers have landed on Mars, one of which is shadowed by an experimental helicopter. Two billionaires hurled themselves to the edge of space, and a third billionaire flew himself higher into orbit. Then William Shatner flew into space, and a fourth …

Carolyn Shoemaker, Hunter of Comets and Asteroids, dies at 92

He earned a master’s degree in history and political science from Chico State University (now known as California State University, Chico). Eugene Shoemaker and his brother’s former college roommate, Dr. He met her at her older brother’s wedding, where Shoemaker served as best man. They got married a year later, in 1951. Ms. Shoemaker taught …