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Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy told a joint session of Congress that “this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” His vision became NASA’s …

Two seismic events — one natural, the other manmade — occurred not far from a West Virginia coal mine just days before a suspected methane explosion left 25 miners dead and four missing. An earthquake registering magnitude 3.4 occurred early Sunday morning about 100 miles northeast of Montcoal, W. Va., …

Jetpacks are so last year. The real vehicles of the future are robotic jetpacks. And the future has arrived. The Martin Aircraft Company, makers of the world’s only commercial jetpack, has built an unmanned version of the device that can be launched from the back of a pickup truck, ferry …