NASA's 50th anniversary
NASA's 50th Anniversary

Celebrating 50 years of Innovation, Inspiration and Discovery

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Taback: Godfather to Viking and a Fair Number of Engine...

Izzy Tabak and Cliff Nelson.
09.22.08

Project scientist Gerry Soffen called Israel Taback the "father of the Mars Viking Lander," parentage that Taback rejected with his usual wry wit. "It didn't need a father. More of a godfather."

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Ohio Astronauts Celebrate NASA's 50th Anniversary

Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, and Jim Lovell
09.03.08

NASA's 50th anniversary was celebrated with an all-star gathering of legendary American astronauts.

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This Month in Exploration - September

Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS)
08.28.08

Fifteen years ago, the space shuttle Discovery crew deployed the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite, the first high-speed, all-digital communications satellite. Read more historical facts in...

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  • Katherine Johnson.

    She Was a Computer When Computers Wore Skirts

    Katherine Johnson was 90 on Tuesday, an apt date because it also was National Equality Day. Not that she ever thought she wasn't equal.

  • Eilene Galloway

    The Woman Who Helped Create NASA

    Eilene Galloway helped write the law that brought NASA into being.

  • Dr. Thomas Keith Glennan

    This Month in Exploration - August

    Fifty years ago, Dr. Thomas Keith Glennan was sworn in as the first NASA Administrator. Dr. Hugh Dryden was appointed as his deputy administrator. Read more historical facts in This Month in Exploration.

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    This Month in Exploration - July

    Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which instituted NASA. Find out what else happened this month in exploration history.

  • Wind tunnel deconstruction.

    Wind Tunnel Workers Watch Sadly as 7X10 Disappears

    Like a long-necked, yellow carnivore, the crane lunges forward. Its jaws take another bite of metal, and then the crane pulls back so that the jaws can drop their load into a truck.

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