A site has been chosen for a new control tower at Athens-Ben Epps Airport, with construction slated to start within the next 18 months to two years. Construction of the tower will be federally funded, as part of a $500 million Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) project to replace aging control towers at 31 of the […]
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps had an unusual path to space: She waited an extra six years to fly. Epps will finally fly to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than Saturday night (March 2) on the SpaceX Crew-8 mission for NASA, performing the second long-duration mission by a Black woman on the orbiting complex. […]
A Syracuse native is preparing to launch into space early this year to live and conduct research on the International Space Station for several months. NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, who will be embarking on her first spaceflight, is one of four crew members of the upcoming NASA SpaceX Crew-8 Mission, which is planning to launch […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to a year of probation for joining the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters. Ray Epps, a former Arizona resident who was driven into hiding by death threats, pleaded guilty […]