
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Signals Sea Change in U.S. Spaceflight
An uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station will be a crucial milestone for the company’s grand vision of private spaceflight
Ned Potter, a writer from New York City, spent more than 25 years as an ABC News and CBS News correspondent covering science, technology, space and the environment.

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Signals Sea Change in U.S. Spaceflight
An uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station will be a crucial milestone for the company’s grand vision of private spaceflight

Apollo 8, 50 Years Later: The Greater Leap
The first flight to take astronauts around the moon looms larger than the first to land

Newton’s Apple: Science and the Value of a Good Story
Search online for any list of history’s greatest scientists and you’ll find the same names: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Sigmund Freud, Louis Pasteur, and so on.

Teaching Kids to Love Science, and Falling in Love with the Kids
Put a science writer in a classroom with two-dozen ten-year-olds and I promise you this: the writer will learn more than the kids. I’ve just had that experience, not for the first time but in an especially fulfilling away, while talking about science to a group of fourth and fifth graders at Public School 96 [...]