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NASA TV-Wallops Island Launch at 5:00pm Eastern... →

If you can’t see the launch from your location, click the link for NASA TV and see the entire launch! The word rocket entered English in 1610 from the Italian word rocchetto, meaning a bobbin or spool head. The Italian root probably derived from a Germanic root such as rocko with the same meaning. The word was first used in English to describe a device propelled by a rocket engine in...

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On this day in 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) using unacknowledged photographs and research by their colleague Rosalind Franklin. They had considered many other candidates for the structure, including single and triple strand helices before deciphering the structure. They would publish a paper that same year describing their...

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