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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…
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…
NASA is preparing for the demolition of three iconic structures at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.…
In the 1960s, NASA was pioneering a new era of human spaceflight—and astronaut photography—that would change Earth observation forever.
In the summer 2025 issue of the NASA History Office’s News & Notes newsletter, examples of leadership and critical decision-making…
After supporting the center’s research missions for more than a decade, NASA’s S-3B Viking aircraft is moving on from NASA’s…
The NASA History Office brings you the new Spring 2025 issue of NASA History News & Notes reflecting on some…
On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle…
On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young…
“I hid a sandwich in my spacesuit,” Astronaut John W. Young confessed in the April 2, 1965, issue of Life…
Skylab 3 astronauts witnessed many spectacular sights during their 858 orbital trips around the Earth in the summer of 1973.…
Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside of Phoenix…
On March 6, 1985, NASA’s newest space shuttle, Atlantis, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at the Rockwell…
On March 2, 1995, space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its eighth trip into…
On March 3, 1915, the United States Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Although the NACA’s founding…
On Feb. 28, 1990, space shuttle Atlantis took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on STS-36, the sixth…
To celebrate the 110th anniversary of the organization that ultimately became NASA, the agency released a new collection of videos…
Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the Moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists believed the…
With two months to go before flight, the Apollo 13 prime crew of James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly, Fred Haise, and…
On Feb. 11, 2000, space shuttle Endeavour took to the skies on its 14th trip into space on the Shuttle…