Sixty-two years ago today, Jack Boyd, senior advisor to the Ames director, first reported to work at Moffett Field, the home of NASA's Ames Research Center.
Sixty-two years ago today, Jack Boyd, senior advisor to the Ames director, first reported to work at Moffett Field, the home of NASA's Ames Research Center.
Five years ago NASA's Stardust spacecraft navigated through a cloud of ice and dust to return images of comet Wild 2. Read more historical facts in This Month in Exploration.
The Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif., is highlighting the connection between NASA's pioneering astronauts and Peanuts' barnstorming beagle.
When Erwin Zaretsky interviewed with NACA in Cleveland in 1957, he was looking for a temporary position. More than 50 years later, he's a NASA Glenn chief engineer.
Forty years ago the crew of Apollo 8 transmitted the first image of Earth from space. Read more historical facts in This Month in Exploration.
Earl Hanes started to work at NASA through the apprentice program in 1953. Today he's doing research that will send us back to the moon.
Research pilot William H. "Bill" Dana completed his cockpit checklist in preparation for a flight in the rocket-powered X-15.
When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration came into being in 1958, Richard Cavicchi already had 14 years of service with the federal government.
12.22.08 - NASA Television will honor the 40th anniversary of the historic Christmas Eve broadcast by the Apollo 8 crew with special programming Dec. 24 and 25 on the NASA TV Public Channel (101).
12.19.08 - The 2007 NASA Commercial Invention of the Year - Polyimide Foam - is a multi-use foam that insulates for sound, heat and cold with aerospace and down to Earth applications.
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