It’s a number so large it’s hard to imagine: 16.1 million. That’s how many Americans put on a military uniform during World War II, a figure that represented nearly 12 percent of the entire U.S. population at the time. This wasn't just an army;...
NASA operates under a fundamentally different mandate than its private sector counterpart. The agency designs rockets for missions to the edge of the solar system, requiring materials that withstand decades of exposure to cosmic radiation and extreme temperature variations. Their Space Launch System relies...