The Mercury program got massive attention ... separately and inserted into orbit, with a manned Gemini launched shortly afterward. The mission plan was for the Gemini crew to locate the GATV ...

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Janet Petro became the first woman to lead NASA on Jan. 20, after U.S. President Donald Trump appointed her to be acting ...

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10th, 2021.

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

After groundbreaking success with the Mercury and Gemini missions, NASA was rocked by the Apollo 1 disaster, in which three crew members were killed in an accidental fire. But NASA recovered ...

From the Mercury and Gemini missions that first sent Americans into space to the Apollo missions that landed them on the moon, Kraft was a visionary, the nucleus of NASA. The agency's first flight ...

A former NASA astronaut has donated state of Kansas flags that made trips to the moon and back to the Cosmosphere.

A joint military task force recently conducted search and rescue training off Florida’s east coast as agencies prepare for an ...