An experienced skydiver spoke a few final words after he realised he forgot to put on a parachute before jumping.

The remarkable bravery of a school teacher who did more than 1,600 parachute test jumps during ... The skills he imparted were used during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which began in the ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in ...

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On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, orbiting the earth once before landing ...

And a result of this is a feeling of complete empowerment and achievement. Perhaps the most compelling reason to literally ...

Forest City last hosted RAGBRAI when it served as an overnight town in 2014. It was the longtime home of recreational vehicle manufacturer Winnebago. The company still has a large factory there, but ...

On this day in 1982, the Boston Celtics nearly moved to the North Shore; 36 years earlier, they hired Holy Cross' Alvin Julian as head coach.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth.

Sixty years before pop star Katy Perry's 10-minute spaceflight, a factory worker from the Soviet Union created history, ...