Mission Control is crucial to the success of any space mission. This command center, located in Houston, Texas, helps astronauts complete their missions. Mission control was created in the 1960s to perform nearly all functions for the Mercury, Gemini,...

Mission Control Center (MCC) is a unit that manages aerospace flights. MCC is often part of an aerospace agency. There are several such agencies in the world, the three biggest ones...

What are you giving up for the new year? Smoking? Gossip? Harrison Owen says companies should give up control-and makes the case for "open space.)) At the beginning of a new year, it is customary to make resolutions to stop what we shouldn't...

Why can't economists admit that corporations serve themselves, not the market? HERE'S A LITERARY CURIOSITY for times. John Kenneth Galbraith was the most widely read economist of the last century, and possibly, after Karl Marx, of all time. Yet his most important book,...

The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," and of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.It was the first successful launch from Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport being developed in the southern New...

A European spacecraft executed a close flyby of Mars on Sunday, a crucial maneuver in its meandering, 10-year voyage through the solar system to make the first soft landing on a comet.Applause broke out in the European Space Agency's mission control center as the Rosetta...