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70-year-old Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is dead. He died Wednesday, February 17, 2020
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative commentator whose fiery rhetoric forged a new landscape for talk radio and inflamed the partisan divide that came to characterize political discourse in the United States, has died, according to an announcement on his radio show…
Astronaut William Thornton, who invented the space shuttle treadmill, is dead at 91
Former NASA astronaut William Thornton, who used his inventions to measure and combat the ill-effects of microgravity while onboard two space shuttle missions. NASA reported Thornton’s death on Thursday (January 14). “NASA is saddened to learn of the loss of former…
Last man to stand on the moon Eugene Cernan dies aged 82
Former astronaut Gene Cernan, a Navy pilot and veteran of NASA’s pioneering Gemini program who was the second American to walk in space and then flew to the moon twice as an Apollo astronaut, becoming the last human to leave…
Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, dies
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who uttered one of history’s most famous proclamations when he became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969, died Saturday. Armstrong was commander of the Apollo 11 mission that made the first manned lunar…