Take a rare look inside Astronaut Crew Quarters with former shuttle commander Bob Cabana as he shows the area where flight crews relaxed, ate and exercised in the days before launch. The crew quarters facility is at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and set up to give astronauts a place to relax while keeping up their training.
The space shuttle required a unique rescue vehicle, one strong enough to bull its way into a launch pad and carry a flight crew and firefighters to safety. The answer is a group of M113 armored personnel carriers.
An Alabama judge dismissed the murder case against a man accused in the scuba-diving death of his newlywed wife in Australia, a judicial official said.
Seven U.S. Marines have been killed in the midair collision of two helicopters in southern Arizona as they trained for deployment to Afghanistan, officials said.
A former aide and a former mistress of one-time presidential candidate John Edwards have settled a civil lawsuit between them that, among other measures, mandates the imminent destruction of sex tapes featuring Edwards and the woman.
Maryland's Legislature voted to legalize same-sex marriage, the latest sign of growing national recognition of such unions. Gov. Martin O'Malley vowed to sign the bill.