A crewed spacecraft with Cyrillic inscriptions is something I definitely didn’t expect to encounter in Manhattan — but there it is. It turns out that Greg Olsen, an entrepreneur and scientist from New Jersey, became the third space tourist back in October 2005. The trip cost him around $20 million. With the change, he also…
One of my favorite photo series. It captures the space shuttle Enterprise flying directly over Manhattan, mounted on a Boeing 747, which was used to transport it to JFK Airport so it could become part of the permanent exhibition at the Intrepid Museum on the New York waterfront. You can spot the museum at around…
New York is an endless playground for a curious mind. Where else can you take a tour of the United Nations and see Sputnik hanging in the lobby? Yes, a full-scale model of the world’s first artificial satellite is suspended from the ceiling in the public entrance hall of the UN headquarters. History Sputnik 1…
