500,000 miles for a stamp
This memento, sold by the U.S. Postal Service, carries a 10-cent airmail stamp with first day of issue cancellations. Signed by President Richard Nixon and astronauts...
Eagle heading homeward
This July 21, 1969, photograph shows the ascent stage of the Apollo 11 lunar module over the moon with earth looming in the black sky above. Eagle lifted off...
A fragment of a tragedy
On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded just seconds after liftoff. This April 18, 1986, photograph shows a segment of the right wing from...
Astronauts' view
This aerial photograph, taken on July 31, 1997, shows the John F. Kennedy Space Center on the east coast of Florida. The Kennedy Space Center, administered by the...
Brzezinski at Cape Canaveral
National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski visited Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 31, 1977. During his visit, he was photographed inspecting electronic equipment...
Celebrating on planet Earth
American citizens celebrated the Moon landing in many different ways—by holding Moon parties, by taking photographs, or, in the case of Thaddeus A. Zagorewicz, by...
Challenger's resting place
On January 28, 1986, at 11:30, A.M. just one minute after lift off, the Space Shuttle Challenger and its crew were destroyed in an explosion. After pieces of the...