“What a mess!” cried irrepressible Jeannette Piccard. “I wanted to land on the White House lawn.” Mrs. Piccard popped her head out of the gondola of the stratosphere balloon in which she and her ...

March 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1413, Henry V was crowned king of England. In 1617, Pocahontas died in England at about age 22. Three years earlier, she converted to Christianity, took ...

The quest for the cosmic ray was a four-ring circus last week. The main purpose of Belgian Professor Auguste Piccard’s stratosphere balloon flight (see p. 32) was to record the effect of cosmic rays ...

In 1413, Henry V was crowned king of England. In 1617, Pocahontas died in England at about age 22. Three years earlier, she converted to Christianity, took the name Rebecca and married Englishman John ...