Child’s toy could be NASA’s solution for spacecraft
Engineers think inflatables could fly us out to Mars
DATE: Jan 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Brock Vergakis
Fracking OK’d in forest in Virginia
NORFOLK, Va. – Environmentalists and energy boosters alike welcomed a federal compromise announced Tuesday that will allow fracking in the largest national forest in the eastern United State...
DATE: Nov 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Business
Navy changes how alcohol is sold on-base
NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. – On the world’s largest naval base, sailors can pull into a gas station and buy a bottle of liquor before sunrise.
But as the Navy works to curb alcoho...
DATE: Aug 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
NASA heads back to future
NORFOLK, Va. – During the glory days of the U.S. space program in the 1960s and ‘70s, astronauts returning to Earth splashed down at sea in their capsules and were picked up by the Navy in ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
2 FBI agents who died remembered for valor
NORFOLK, Va. – FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday praised two agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast last weekend for their “true and unerring valor.”
Spe...
DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. tests drone from aircraft carrier
Use of ships would eliminate military’s need for foreign bases
DATE: May 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
