Elon Musk and SpaceX are looking to bring Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams — the pair of U.S. astronauts that have been in space much longer than NASA originally planned — back to Earth soon.

Read on for some of those tales. In the late 19th century, inventor Sarah E. Goode’s novel solution to the urbanite challenge of saving space in small apartments made her one of the first ...