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The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful Apollo 9 mission in…
Enterprise, the first space shuttle orbiter that NASA built, arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on April…
“A genuine space success story,” is how Experiments Manager William Kerslake described NASA’s second Space Electric Rocket Test (SERT II),…
On April 8, 1964, Gemini 1 successfully completed the first uncrewed test flight of the Gemini spacecraft and its Titan…
The Mercury 7 On April 9, 1959, reporters and news media crammed into the ballroom of the Dolley Madison House…
On Apr. 6, 1984, space shuttle Challenger took off on its fifth flight, STS-41C. Its five-person crew of Commander Robert…
On April 8, 2024, North America will witness its last total solar eclipse for more than twenty years. Other parts…
On Nov. 5, 1958, NASA, newly established to lead America’s civilian space program, formally established the Space Task Group (STG)…
On March 24, 1979, space shuttle Columbia arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for the very first time. Following…
The road to the Moon landing cleared a major hurdle in March 1969 with the flight of Apollo 9 that…
On March 8, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the first image of Earth from the surface of another…
The Kepler mission enabled the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, revealing a deep truth about our place in the cosmos:…
On March 3, 1959, the United States launched Pioneer 4 with the goal of photographing the Moon during a close…
“A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of…
Supersonic flight became a reality in October 1947, when the Bell X-1 rocket plane broke the sound barrier. NASA’s Lewis…
Following the success of the Apollo 8 circumlunar mission, NASA believed that it could achieve a Moon landing by the…
In 1994, a joint NASA and Department of Defense (DOD) mission called Clementine dramatically changed our view of the Moon.…
In the dawn of the Space Age, a group of scientists and engineers from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) had…
In early 1969, the goal set by President John F. Kennedy to land a man on the Moon seemed within…
The longest spaceflight up to that time ended on Feb. 8, 1974, when Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward…
On Feb. 3, 1984, space shuttle Challenger took off on its fourth flight, STS-41B. Its five-person crew of Commander Vance…