In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless II made history—and defied human instinct—by stepping into the vast void of space ...

The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.

As a child, I gazed at the evening stars, wondering what was out there in the universe. Were there people on other planets?

Every American who lived through the '80s remembers the Challenger explosion. But what happened to cause the famous national ...