Profs & Pints DC: Aboard the Webb Space Telescope
• January 22, 2023

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Aboard the Webb Space Telescope,” a NASA astrophysicist’s guide to the design, mission, and early discoveries of a pioneering space instrument, with Matthew Greenhouse, project […]

2022 – 2023: What’s Out and What’s In
• December 29, 2022

As we look toward the new year with high hopes and a modicum of trepidation, it is perhaps altogether fitting and proper to look back on this past year and […]

Profs & Pints DC: An Inside Look at the Webb Telescope
• September 21, 2022

Profs and Pints DC presents: “An Inside Look at the Webb Telescope,” with Ori Fox, who has been involved in the telescope’s launch, commissioning, and ongoing research as an instrument […]

The Sky’s the Limit!: Pushing Our Boundaries
• January 12, 2022

With the new year much on our minds and a whole new crop of freshly-resolved new year’s resolutions, the staff of The Georgetowner opted to explore the concepts of “stepping […]

2022: What’s Out, What’s In? 
• December 30, 2021

What’s Out?                          What’s In? Delta                                        […]

What’s Out and What’s In?
• December 9, 2020

One day, we’ll look back and … wish we hadn’t. But, for now, here’s our highly idiosyncratic look at “What’s Out and What’s In” at the end of this exceptionally strange year.

1969: A Year of Triumph and Turbulence 
• June 19, 2019

From the first of time,  before the first of time, before the  first men tasted time, we thought of you.  You were a wonder to us, unattainable,  a longing past the […]

An Astronaut’s Notes on Apollo 
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By Scott Altman   Ten years ago last month, I had just returned from my final flight as the commander of STS 125, a space shuttle mission to repair and renovate […]

‘We Choose to Go to the Moon’ at the Portrait Gallery (photos)
• December 14, 2018

The final performance of the dance piece, choreographed by Dana Tai Soon Burgess, will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 6:30 pm.

A Solar Eclipse Brings Us Together … Briefly
• August 21, 2017

In the zones of partiality, which included Washington, D.C., the scene was not quite the showstopper.