Space

Jean Wright is the focus of the 2023 children’s book by Elise Matich “Sew Sister: The Untold story of Jean Wright and NASA’s Seamstresses.”

The Carthage College team is aiming to have its work “mission ready” in nine months.

The longtime director of the UW-La Crosse planetarium spoke to WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” about the building’s legacy and plans for its last shows.

Jim Lovell was the first astronaut to travel to space four times and the leader of the harrowing Apollo 13 mission. He died earlier this month at the age of 97. The coauthor of the Apollo 13 recounting, “Lost Moon” explored Lovell’s legacy.

UW-Madison’s Keith Bechtol has played a hand in building the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. A camera with 3.2 billion pixels will collect the data equivalent of all written language over all of human history.

Michelle Thaller has always been obsessed with space, going back to growing up in Waukesha and running through her NASA career. Her connection to the cosmos persisted through a black hole of deep grief, too.

A total lunar eclipse is set for Wisconsin skies overnight March 13-14. The “blood moon” returns for the first time since 2022.

Fall is a great time for star gazing, amateur astronomer Paul Kinzer said on “The Larry Meiller Show.” Kinzer shared nine celestial sights to behold in the coming weeks and months.

Speaking with “TTBOOK” in 2017, journalist David Baron describes how witnessing a total solar eclipse set him on a path to examine how eclipses have propelled many inquisitive minds to see more deeply into the universe.

Entomologists and a beehive tech company hope to capture how honeybees react to the total solar eclipse on April 8.