Visual flight path
This lunar orbit chart was used in conjunction with the flight of Apollo 11. It represents what astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would see on one complete...
Watching history
In this photograph Attorney General Robert Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, Vice President Lydon Johnson, Arthur Schlesinger, Admiral Arleigh Burke, President John F. Kennedy...
Words of caution
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. Not long after the...
Writing from space
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. In 1998, he returned to space at the age of 77, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery....