STEM Documents

Science, technology, engineering and math are key subjects to study in today's rapidly changing, technology-based society. They are also great subjects for interesting stories.

This document, released by NASA, shows early objections to the design of the O-Rings and the potential for joint leakage.  The document is dated ...

Personnel from the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Alabama, objected to lowering the standards for the SRM (Solid Rocket Motor) O-Rings and clevis jo...

Personnel from the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Alabama, objected to lowering the standards for the SRM (Solid Rocket Motor) O-Rings and clevis jo...

NASA personnel, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, were very concerned about Morton Thiokol's position on the O-ring and clevis-joint ...

Thirty years after the crash, Pan Am's first officer (Robert Bragg) told his story in Flight Safety Australia: As we were turning left, I looked back...

This text image depicts the first page of a patent issued to Nicolaus Otto on the 28th of June, 1887.  It awarded him the rights to a "Gas Motor ...

From the safety of a ship, moored in the Port Royal harbor, Edmund Heath wrote a detailed account of what he had seen on the morning of June 7, 1692.&...

In an effort to educate its citizens about how to respond to a nuclear attack, Massachusetts issued this brochure.  If people saw a flash “...

Book-cover image of Raptors!  The Nastiest Dinosaurs, by Don Lessem, illustrated by David Peters.

This image, of Galileo's recantation, depicts the ending section.  The document, which he actually signed, eliminated two points which the Cardin...

This article was the first in a series of articles written in July, 1947 about the "flying disc" recovered near Roswell.  It reports that Major J...

This chart depicts statistics regarding schizophrenia.  It reveals that genetics may play a role in developing the illness.

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