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George Washington was born along this tidal creek in Virginia and, as a teenager, made one of his first surveying…
In the 1960s, NASA was pioneering a new era of human spaceflight—and astronaut photography—that would change Earth observation forever.
Samuel Pierpont Langley conducted the first successful flight of an unpiloted, engine-driven, heavier-than-air craft from a houseboat near Chopawamsic Island…
Well-wishers in Hawaii welcomed the astronauts on July 26, 1969, after they landed on the Moon, splashed down in the…
While the now silent Vanguard II continues to orbit the Earth, its back-up brother has been restored and mounted in…
The Galapagos was just one part of a much longer journey for Charles Darwin and the Beagle.
"It took me 20 years to get to the level I should have been hired at, but that doesn't change…
EO Kids is exploring the history of viewing Earth from space – from Explorer 1 to our modern constellation of…
Scheduled to fly for a year, designed to last a year and a half, EO-1 celebrated its tenth anniversary on…
