
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of several wildfires still plaguing the southeastern United States on November 26, 2016.

Woman working at manometer boards in the 18 x 18 inch Supersonic Wind Tunnel at Lewis Field (now the main…

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a sunset that looks like a vast sheet of flame. With Earth’s…

Pegasus XL Mated to L-1011 Stargazer Carrier Aircraft

Saturn’s icy moon Mimas is dwarfed by the planet’s enormous rings.

Melba Roy headed the group of NASA mathematicians, known as “computers,” who tracked the Echo satellites. Roy’s computations helped produce…

Langley actively recruited woman workers to meet the increasing demand of the war effort and offset the alarming loss of…

Langley actively recruited woman workers to meet the increasing demand of the war effort and offset the alarming loss of…

Before the development of electronic computers, the term “computer” referred to women, not machines. It was a job title, designating…