National Geographic has handed a series order to the adaptation of Tom Wolfe's bestselling nonfiction book The Right Stuff from Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way.

Production on the scripted series will begin this fall on the series, which tells the story of the early days of the U.S. space program. Appian Way Productions …

Tom Wolfe, the master prose stylist, journalist and novelist whose use of fiction techniques like dialogue, scene-setting and point-of-view energized non-fiction in the 1960s and ’70s, died Monday in New York. He was 87.

Wolfe, perhaps the preeminent practitioner of what would come to be called the New Journalism, auth…

National Geographic has inked a development deal with Appian Way Productions and Warner Horizon Scripted Television for a series adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling nonfiction book The Right Stuff. The scripted project is executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson, with Will Staples (Call of…

John Glenn, one of the most important figures of the early U.S. space program who in 1962 became the first American to orbit the earth, died today at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus following an unspecified illness. He was 95. His death was confirmed today by Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Glenn, a…