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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on April 25, 2022 and has been updated to reflect changes including the…
From the voyages of spacecraft to the Moon and beyond, to the launches of satellites that help us navigate, communicate,…
Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning 100 years ago, when a college professor and his wife took a morning…
Nestled in the Mojave Desert, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, pushes the boundaries of flight to advance…
Project Mercury: 1961–1963 Filename Transcript MR03_TEC.PDF Mercury-Redstone 3 Postlaunch Memorandum Report, June 16, 1961, 7 pages MR04_TEC.PDF Mercury-Redstone 4 Results…
NASA is preparing for the demolition of three iconic structures at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.…
Background The story begins in 1952, when the International Council of Scientific Unions decided to establish the International Geophysical Year…
In 1988, Eric M. Jones had an epiphany while visiting Johnson Space Center. Jones, an astronomer fascinated by the history…
During the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958), the Soviet Union and the United States vied with one another to launch a…
