NASA’s first Saturn I rocket launched on October 27, 1961, demonstrating heavy-lift capabilities and initiating the Saturn program that ultimately enabled crewed Apollo missions to the Moon.
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NGC 1961 can be found nearly 180 million light-years away from the earth in the constellation Camelopardalis. (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)) In a major development, NASA’s Hubble Space ...
The NASA History Program Office and the National Air and Space Museum’s Division of Space History are pleased to announce a symposium marking four significant anniversaries in the history of human ...
For the first time, the story of NASA’s role in promoting civil rights by hiring the first African American spaceworkers is being told. Authors Richard Paul and Steven Moss feature ten African ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fifty years to the moment Alan Shepard rocketed away, more than 100 Project Mercury workers joined former astronauts and NASA leaders at the original Redstone launchpad Thursday ...
At 9:06 am CST on October 27, 1961, NASA took its first step toward landing on the moon when it successfully launched the Saturn I rocket, its first designed specifically for space exploration. The ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW – The first human in space, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made his first flight 46 years ago on April 12, and they’re going to party like it’s 1961 on Friday night at NASA Ames Research ...
'Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share...,' the ...