United States Project Mercury," released in 1960, documents the rigorous training of America's first seven astronauts as part ...

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of ... Marshall Space Flight Center when it was established in 1960 before rising through the ranks to become its director in ...

The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of space exploration. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were locked in a race to the stars. Rockets, astronauts, and satellites filled the headlines. That obsession ...

NASA administrator James C ... and was part of the engineering team that helped launch the Marshall center in 1960. Dr. Lucas worked on the design of Skylab, which became the first U.S. space ...