As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But ...
In 1960, nine years before he walked on the moon, a 30-year-old test pilot named Neil Armstrong applied to fly the X-20 ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at a record 120 kilowatts, the most powerful electric propulsion test in U.S. history. The ...
Celebrate Mother’s Day with a look at mothers in collectibles! Decorative arts are filled with images of mothers in domestic ...
Jim Kelly spent almost three years as an aircraft mechanic at Marana airfield before he found out who he was really working for. One day in 1966, Kelly’s boss at Intermountain Aviation pulled him off ...