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Pilot in fatal Box Elder County plane crash was in training program, report says - KSLNewsRadio
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (563+ words) Jul 15, 2026, 11:33 AM (Box Elder County Sheriff's Office) BY JOE R. WIRTHLIN JR, KSL WILLARD, Box Elder County — The pilot who died in a plane crash June 23 was conducting a flight as part of a commercial flight training program, according to a…...
Map, times for Utah National Guard flyover on July Fourth
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (502+ words) Jul 1, 2026, 5:09 PM Maj. Kristin "Beo" Wolfe flies in a demonstration at Hill Air Force Base on June 3, 2022. The U.S. Air Force Reserve's 419th Fighter Wing will be joined by the Utah Air National Guard's 151st Wing for a statewide July 4th flyover. (Jeffrey D. Allred,…...
Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire with SpaceX's IPO - KSLNewsRadio
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (670+ words) Jun 12, 2026, 7:15 AM FILE - Elon Musk departs after a welcome ceremony with President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Beijing. (Mark Schiefelbein, Associated Press) The world’s richest man is set…...
NASA unveils Artemis III astronauts to test technology for a future moon landing - KSLNewsRadio
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (585+ words) (Bill Stafford, NASA via AP) BY ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS The announcement came two months after Artemis II’s record-breaking trip around the moon that surpassed the distance record of Apollo 13. NASA’s Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, Andre Douglas and the European…...
Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared fuel tanks and key launch pad parts - KSLNewsRadio
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (586+ words) Jun 2, 2026, 10:00 PM A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test on Thursday, May 28, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (@JConcilus via AP) BY MARCIA DUNN, ASSOCIATED PRESS Critical to NASA’s Artemis moon program, the company’s massive New Glenn rocket…...
The wide-brimmed Sombrero galaxy is revealed in all its splendor by a telescope in Chile - KSLNewsRadio
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (381+ words) Located approximately 30 million light-years away, this spiral galaxy — formally known as Messier 104 — is one of the largest in the constellation Virgo cluster. It’s an estimated 50,000 light-years across. A light year is about 6 trillion miles. Captured in incredible detail, the galaxy’s…...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is grounded after launching satellite into the wrong orbit - KSLNewsRadio
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (437+ words) Apr 21, 2026, 12:07 PM BY MARCIA DUNN, ASSOCIATED PRESS Launches of the huge New Glenn rocket are grounded until Blue Origin and the Federal Aviation Administration complete their investigation. The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday. The…...
Artemis II mission was the warm-up act for a 2028 moon landing. Will it happen? - KSLNewsRadio
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1177+ words) Apr 14, 2026, 9:33 PM Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Pilot Victor Glover, and Commander Reid Wiseman embrace during a press conference on April 11, 2026 at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, Texas. Their historic 10-day mission around…...
Artemis II's moon-traveling astronauts return home to cheers after a record-breaking trip - KSLNewsRadio
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (794+ words) Apr 11, 2026, 3:29 PM BY MARCIA DUNN, ASSOCIATED PRESS The crew of four arrived at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center and Mission Control, flying in from San Diego where they splashed down just offshore the evening before. “The long wait…...
Artemis II astronauts return from moon with a splashdown to close out a record-breaking lunar voyage - KSLNewsRadio
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (974+ words) BY MARCIA DUNN, AP AEROSPACE WRITER It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not only swaths of the moon’s far side — never seen before by human eyes — but a total solar eclipse....