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55th Anniversary of John Glenn’s “Friendship 7” Flight

(via History) On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn became the third American in space and the first to orbit

(via mental_floss) The inside of Apollo 17’s lunar module smelled of gunpowder. It was December 1972, the last of NASA’s

(via Ars Technica) 50 years ago this week, on January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo Lunar program program when

(via Amusing Planet) Before astronauts get suited up and launched into space, they spends their final days relaxing with their

(via JSTOR Daily) The space race of the Sixties now seems a distant memory: all those moonwalks, Cold War rivalries,

(via mental_floss) In 2006, NASA placed a 1991 postage stamp inside the New Horizons spacecraft before sending it off to

(via NASA) Bright, frosty polar caps, and clouds above a vivid, rust-colored landscape reveal Mars as a dynamic seasonal planet

(via Amusing Planet) Devon Island in Baffin Bay, belonging to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is the largest uninhabited island on

Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins had already spent months in training as the backup crew for Apollo

Two NASA astronauts take you on a tour of the T-38 jet – the preferred jet for astronaut training since