Valentina Tereshkova The year is 1963, just six years before Neil Armstrong took one small step. At this stage in the great space race, Yuri Gagarin had already made history by being the first human to enter space and orbit the planet in 1961. Because of his flight, a Soviet woman who dropped out of […]
For years, scientists have known that Earth is something special. Its distance from the sun allows for the perfect amount of light and heat to enter the atmosphere, giving us the perfect temperature and energy to sustain life. While the debate about the origin of said life still continues, no one can deny that Earth […]
The Mars Curiosity rover has found proof of the existence of water on the planet, reported NASA. Images of stones “cemented into a layer of conglomerate rock,” indicating the presence of a streambed, are being studied by scientists. This evidence is the first of its kind to be found on Mars by any of the […]
The Macaulay Honors Lounge at the College of Staten Island has recently doubled in size, thanks in no small part to the work of Meagan Derbyshire, class of 2013. During a meeting with CSI President Tómas Morales in 2010, the class of 2013 brought up the fact that the Honors Lounge was terribly undersized, and […]
