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 ...
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 ...
Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. This weekend, a 56-year ...
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 ...
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 ...
With America’s eyes trained on the impending moon mission in the 1960s, NASA officials began quietly working on a project that could transform space travel. They were trying to build a nuclear rocket ...
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 ...