Nasa 1960s

This Las Vegas newspaper captures the excitement as two American astronauts explore the moon's surface on July 20. Earlier in the day, President Richard Nixon had led the nation in prayer for a successful moon landing.

On the 50th anniversary of NASA's Mission Control Center, we look back at where it all started.

Jeanette Scissum joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 after earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Alabama A&M University. Scissum published a NASA report in 1967, “Survey of Solar Cycle Prediction Models,” which put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot cycle.

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Saturn SA-9 Lift-off

Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) President Barack Obama congratulates former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and Unite…

Via ZME Science Take a moment to consider that the first space flights, both for the Soviets and for NASA, took place way before computers. Engineers had to calculate how to send spacecraft into ou…

Astronauts John W. Young (L) and Virgil I. Grissom (2L) preparing for 2-men Gemini space flight. Location: US Date taken: 1965 Photographer: Ralph Morse

Buzz Aldrin.