October Sky The movie "October Sky" is set in the 1950's in the dieing cola mining town of Coalwood, during the beginning of the space race. The town is experiencing big economic changes during a time of nation wide turmoil. The space race inspires a boy named Homer Hickam to purs...

World War One began in August of 1914, involving the military powers of Europe, Britain, other nations throughout the world, and later the United States. The war was fought mainly on the ground, until the invention of the aircraft as a military weapon This new type of warfare soon became a strong po...

Major Creditors to the History of Rocketry Tsiolkovsky – Konstantin Eduardovitch Tsiolkovsky was born in September, 1857 in the town of Izhevskoye, Spassk District, Ryazan Gubernia. On the merits of some of his early research and related writings, Tsiolkovsky was elected to the ...