On March 28, 1963 NASA launched the first stage booster of its new Saturn 1 rocket on a fourth and final test flight. This uncrewed suborbital flight helped pave the way for astronauts to launch to ...
When a poem by Ada Limon, the U.S. poet laureate, was engraved in her own handwriting on a NASA spacecraft that began a 1.8 billion-mile, six-year journey in October 2024 to orbit Jupiter, it helped ...
On February 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful upper ...
This rare, inscribed, and signed photo from a video transmission of Neil Armstrong’s “One giant leap for mankind” stepping on the moon is from the estate of long-time NASA engineer Clark C. McClelland ...
The journey to the moon and the successful landing on the lunar surface. One of the astronauts remained in orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), while the other two landed on the moon in the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A deadly Osprey aircraft crash last November off Japan was caused by cracks in a metal gear and the pilot’s decision to keep flying rather than heed multiple warnings that he should ...
Apollo 13 astronauts Fred W. Haise, James A. Lovell and John L. Swigert, left to right, leave a helicopter to step aboard carrier Iwo Jima in the Pacific ocean after their successful recovery on ...
An Air Force colonel was fired from his command at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., days before he was slated to hand off his duties, according to service officials. Col. Jeremiah Hammill was relieved July ...