Aside from being an absolutely spectacular feat of human engineering, the process also contained a puzzle that internet sleuths immediately set to tackling.
Changes to GPS could have significant effects on our safety in the years to come. Let's take a look at the history of GPS, how it works, and how might change.
As with most things involving the mafia, proof is hard to come by. And if you asked Gotti's lawyers, he was a plumbing contractor who earned $60,000 a year.
Ted Bundy's arrest in Utah, however, was only the beginning. He wasn't just a terrifying murderer and master of manipulation. He was also a master of escape.
The first American to earn an international pilot's license was a Black and Cherokee woman. Her name was Bessie Coleman: the Black female pilot history forgot.
Tom Horn: cowboy, Army scout, Apache translator, miner, hunter of cattle rustlers, sharpshooter, detective, and assassin-turned-wrongfully-accused murderer.
Despite a "200-strong ripper squad," the capture of Peter Sutcliffe, the man known as the Yorkshire Ripper, could effectively be chalked up to dumb luck.
For two years in the 1960s, Operation Pedro Pan, also known as Operation Peter Pan, resulted in thousands of Cuban children being relocated to the U.S.
He credits his dad as the source of his nickname. But at 15 years old Dwayne Johnson stood a rock solid 6 feet and 4 inches tall, and weighed about 200 pounds.
The unidentified Atlantic City Serial Killer, sometimes called the Eastbound Strangler, brutally murdered four women in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 2006.
Of the 1,655 people who died, several of them lived outside of Chile and were killed by tsunamis resulting from the earthquake, including 61 people in Hawaii.
The New York Tristate area has seen its fair share of serial killers. One of the biggest unsolved cases in the region relates to the Long Island serial killer.
Even after an effective treatment of syphilis was discovered, some scientists sought an effective prophylaxis rather than improving treatment technique.
When it comes time to name the world's most powerful, there's nothing you (or anyone else) can buy in a store that can even compete with the supercomputers.
Scandal, and the injuries that sidelined Woods in recent years, derailed a career that the world expected to be nothing short of the greatest in golf history.
The Parisian duo, who were responsible for some of the most celebrated and popular dance songs ever made, broke the news of the end of Daft Punk with a video.
If you've seen any of the Jurassic Park movies, you know that the moral of the story is, again and again, people and dinosaurs really shouldn't interact.
Knowing what famous people ate before they died is a fascinating and intimate look into what were quiet, contemplative, joyful, and terrifying moments.