As a result of the space race in the 1960s, NASA created some of the most iconic artworks of the 20th century in their quest to reach the moon. These ubiquitous images were printed on the covers of ...

Travel back to the 1960s, a decade when space exploration was still a daring experiment and NASA was writing history with every launch. These 20 images offer a rare glimpse into the early days of the ...

This weekend, a 56-year old NASA satellite is set to be retired in a glorious blaze of fire. The Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 (OGO-1) satellite studied how the Sun affects the Earth’s magnetic ...

Back in the early 1960s, NASA was still new to getting humans into and back from space. Part of that effort was figuring how to land spacecraft efficiently and safely, and one of the vehicles tested ...

Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose calculations played a major role in the development of the Space Shuttle program, died Monday at the age of 101, NASA confirmed. Johnson was part ...

NASA has imploded the administrative headquarters of the Marshall Space Flight Center to make way for a new state-of-the-art facility on the storied site in Huntsville, Alabama. The Marshall Space ...

As far as job adverts go, it doesn’t get much better than this. Originally featured in a 1967 issue of Scientific American, the full-page ad by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory resonates perfectly ...

One East Texan has a special place in national history. Roy Sitze began working for NASA in 1960 following four years of service in the U.S. Navy. While at NASA, Sitze worked as an engineer, focusing ...

Earlier this month, NASA announced the creation of the Moon to Mars Program Office. It is, if you like, the agency's first official commitment to taking our species to the Red Planet. But we’ve known ...