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 ...

NASA scientists were looking for the bed of the ice when they stumbled across the base, which was built during the Cold War.

"The Space Race" is a new documentary about some of the first Black astronauts. NASA trained Ed Dwight and Robert Lawrence to become astronauts in the 1960s. But NASA didn't send an African-American ...

Nasa has released a huge online gallery of restored photographs from Project Gemini -- the agency's second human spaceflight program and the important baby steps towards landing on the Moon. After ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying a series of harrowing missions during which it seems a ...

In the 1960s, a group of 13 candidates endured unofficial astronaut training with the hope of being chosen for one of the new missions to Earth orbit and the moon. But at the time, they simply ...

Focus on high-energy rocket fuels, 1950s -- RETF: complex, versatile, unique -- Apollo era challenges, 1960s -- Ideas into hardware: testing in the 1970s -- Enhancing RETF's capabilities, 1980s and ...