After nearly a week of weather and technical delays, NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) launched in the early morning…
Here's a blast from the past: 54 years ago on January 31, 1958, Explorer 1 was the first satellite sent…
[/caption] During the 1950s and just before the great "Space Race" began, scientists like Kristian Birkeland, Carl Stormer, and Nicholas…