- Also in Quebec , Montreal money manager Stephen Jarislowsky , ranks 25th and is worth $1.85 billion. - Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte ranked 35th, with a worth of $1.5 billion. - Frank Stronach , chairman of auto parts...

In this article: Canada, Rogers Media, Canadian Business, Jimmy Pattison, Biovail, and Montreal

...course, but Norma Chavez said his inclusion should be mandatory. Twenty-three figures, including President George Washington , astronaut Neil Armstrong and inventor Eli Whitney , are required for the fifth-grade course, but the list includes no...

In this article: Norma Chavez, Cesar Chavez, House Appropriations Committee, Vinegar, Texas, Austin, and Neil Armstrong

Richard Nixon succeeded Lyndon Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America and the world watched in awe as Neil Armstrong took his historic and heroic first steps on the moon. Compared to such events with a global...

In this article: Pele, Santos, Neil Armstrong, Vasco da Gama, Unicef, International Peace Award, and 1958 World Cup

...famous, the ill-fated Apollo 13. Kranz walked the audience through a detailed narrative of the mission in which three astronauts - James Lovell , John Swigert and Fred Haise - narrowly escaped with their lives after an explosion in an oxygen...

In this article: NASA, Apollo 13, Unemployment, Oxygen, Fred Haise, James Lovell, and John Swigert

...this year than this country's mission in Afghanistan. At least that's according to a calculation done by a media research group hired by Guy Laliberte , the Cirque du Soleil founder who recently became the country 's first space...

In this article: Guy Laliberte, Cirque, Canada, Afghanistan, Cirque du Soleil, and Montreal

...at Brown University and a co-investigator on the LCROSS mission. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin , who in 1969 made his historic Apollo 11 moonwalk with Neil Armstrong , was pleased to hear the latest discovery, but still believes the U.S. should...

In this article: NASA, Mars, Buzz Aldrin, E mail, Apollo 11, Hydrogen, George Washington University, and John Logsdon

...moon 40 years ago, I was in Denver with my five sisters, mom and dad watching the blurry, ghostly images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin tentatively walk on a barren sea called Tranquility. The excitement in our living room was palpable.

In this article: NASA, Neil Armstrong, Barack Obama, Ames Research Center, Hydrogen, University of California, Berkeley, and Brown University

...to moon Los Angeles County has given moonwalker Buzz Aldrin a new title: Honorary consul general to the moon. Forty years after Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first men to walk on the moon, county supervisors on Tuesday gave him...

In this article: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Mayon Volcano, Philippines, Broward Sheriff's Office, Chevrolet Cobalt, The Miami Herald, and NASA

...since the attack. Nowak , she said, is a great actress and an accomplished liar. "I know in my heart when Lisa Nowak attacked me, she was going to kill me," Shipman testified. "I believe I escaped a horrible death that night." There...

In this article: Lisa Nowak, NASA, Misdemeanor, Shuttle Discovery, Chest pain, Anxiety, Bill Oefelein, and Valentina Tereshkova

...Memorial Hospital. Satcher will leave the earth's atmosphere just after another astronaut with Northwestern ties returned from space. Michael Barratt , who earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Feinberg and who has taught about physiological...

In this article: Michael Barratt, Northwestern University, Joseph Kerwin, All rights reserved, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Orthopedic surgery, Cancer, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Twitter

Lisa Nowak drove 900 miles to confront Colleen Shipman As an astronaut, Lisa Nowak was a relatively well-known face. She was part of the shuttle crew that flew to the International Space Station in July 2006. But she garnered world...

In this article: Lisa Nowak, Bill Oefelein, Misdemeanor, International Space Station, and NASA

...F-16 crashed during a training flight, the Israeli military said. The military identified the dead pilot as Capt. Asaf Ramon , son of Ilan Ramon , Israel 's first and only astronaut. One of seven crew members killed when the Columbia exploded...

In this article: National Transportation Safety Board, Texas, Space Shuttle Columbia, Ilan Ramon, Ehud Barak, Boca Raton Airport, and Israel

...Airport on Feb. 5, 2007. Shipman was dating Bill Oefelein , an astronaut at the time and Nowak 's former lover. Orlando police say Nowak drove from Houston to Orlando and attacked Shipman in the airport parking lot. She's accused of...

In this article: Lisa Marie Nowak, Misdemeanor, Bill Oefelein, Orlando, and U.S. Air Force

For just over 21 hours in July of 1969, two men became the first humans to take a stroll around the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked around the surface of the Moon supported by Michael Collins orbiting in the Apollo 11 Command...

In this article: NASA, Moon, Neil Armstrong, Apollo, Apollo 17, Apollo, Buzz, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Apollo 12, and Wired.com

...girls examined meteors, learned the chemistry behind making slime and got Godwin’s autograph. </p><p>Bear Ride, whose sister Sally Ride was the first American woman to travel into space in 1983, said the San Diego -based program is...

In this article: Linda M. Godwin, Sally Ride, NASA, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Chemistry, Mir, and Atlantis

... International Space Station aboard Russian rockets, and recently spent months in Russia training as understudy to Charles Simonyi. However, Simonyi made his trip into orbit as planned, and Dyson returned to the States saying she remains...

In this article: NASA, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson, Charles Simonyi, Space Adventures, Charles Bolden, International Space Station, Harvard, and XCOR Aerospace

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying commander Gennady Padalka , flight engineer Michael Barratt , and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday and plunged to a successful landing in...

In this article: Gennady Padalka, Michael Barratt, Guy Laliberte, Earth, Cirque du Soleil, Robert Thirsk, Nicole Stott, Roman Romanenko, and Frank De Winne

WASHINGTON -- International Space Station Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt landed their Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Sunday, wrapping up a six-month stay. Joining them was...

In this article: Soyuz, Gennady Padalka, Guy Laliberte, Space Shuttle, Canadian Space Agency, Frank De Winne, European Space Agency, and NASA