RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In the 1960’s, a new kind of watercraft was going where no other had gone before. “It kind of dovetails the history and science together,” explains Chuck English, the Director ...

Chuck English, director of playful learning and inquiry at the Science Museum of Virginia, discusses a true curiosity from the 1960s – an aluminum submarine with Richmond connections. In 1942, J.

In 1966, 10 days after a U.S. plane carrying four nuclear bombs had run into another and crashed into Spain, the Department of Defense was not yet ready to admit that they were missing a bomb. There ...

Soon afterward, the Aluminaut set out for testing, although it was hanging by the slimmest of safety margins. "I carried a lot of things inside," Markel said. "I didn't even tell my crew, because I ...

Nearly 30 years have passed since the Aluminaut last felt the nip of ocean water. Yet even in retirement, this pioneering submarine – the veteran of more than 250 deep-sea dives – still looks and ...

Some 3,000 ft. below the surface of the Atlantic, off the northern coast of Florida, the creature peered inquisitively through the dark and murky waters, groping for the ocean bottom. Sweeping its ...

Dr. Oreskes is a professor of the history of science at Harvard and the author of “Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know About the Ocean.” As details emerged ...

The department would confirm that it was preparing to send over the Aluminaut—a submersible vehicle built by Reynold Metal Company and on contract with the Navy—and possibly the Alvin, a deep ...