Project Echo was launched. Echo originally started as a 30 inch balloon for the payload of Vanguard to observe atmospheric…
The Project Mercury crew quarters in Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
An aerial view of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Tracking, telemetry and command (TT&C) was an approach that NASA Goddard Space Flight Center started testing in 1960 and quickly…
NASA members represented the United States delegation at the World Administrative Radio Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The United States was…
Pioneer 4 launched into space with the same trajectory as the short-lived Pioneer 3. Pioneer 4 became the first US…
The 26 meter antenna (Deep Space Station 11) was built in Goldstone, California (in the Mojave Desert) and nicknamed “Pioneer”…
Pioneer 1 was launched weighing 84 pounds (38 kilograms). Pioneer, the first lunar space program under NASA was created to…
The US civilian space program, National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) was established. NASA encompassed its predecessor National Advisory Committee on…
Behind three Douglas D-558-IIs is the B-29 launch aircraft. Under its right wing is the world’s first ground-based reaction control…
