HOUSTON – As many people are busy sipping on margaritas and celebrating Cinco de Mayo, Americans have another reason to celebrate today. While May 5 marks the day Mexican army’s declared victory over ...
On, NASA marked a major milestone in America’s early space program with the first successful launch of a Mercury-Atlas rocket. [...] ...
NGC 1961 can be found nearly 180 million light-years away from the earth in the constellation Camelopardalis. (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)) In a major development, NASA’s Hubble Space ...
For the first time, the story of NASA’s role in promoting civil rights by hiring the first African American spaceworkers is being told. Authors Richard Paul and Steven Moss feature ten African ...
"Man, what a ride!”: The triumphant return to Earth of the first US man in space (three photos), Alan Shepard, Dean Conger [Mercury Redstone 3], 5 May 1961, 1961 ...
At 9:06 am CST on October 27, 1961, NASA took its first step toward landing on the moon when it successfully launched the Saturn I rocket, its first designed specifically for space exploration. The ...
The NASA History Program Office and the National Air and Space Museum’s Division of Space History are pleased to announce a symposium marking four significant anniversaries in the history of human ...
1 February 1961: Ham the chimpanzee, part of Nasa’s programme to put a man in space, flew 155 miles up in the Mercury capsule Cape Canaveral, January 31. A chimpanzee named Ham, fired into space by ...
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'Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share...,' the ...
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