On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid to travel into space, marking a critical milestone in ...

Has driving through history ever been so cool, beautiful and timely than visiting Cape Canaveral, the original and current spaceport for NASA?

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

NASA has long captured the imagination of humanity with its ambitions. We reached the moon, built space stations, placed telescopes in orbit, and unlocked the secrets of the universe with NASA's ...

Voshkod 1 kicked off the second series of manned Soviet spaceflights, following the Vostok missions that had been the first to put humans in space. When the craft launched on Oct. 12, 1964, for its ...

Space exploration has always been a costly endeavor, with missions requiring vast resources, cutting-edge technology, and years of research and development. The National Aeronautics and Space ...

Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff while carrying seven people, including "Teacher in Space" participant Christa McAuliffe. Nobody survived the launch on Jan. 28, 1986 from NASA's Kennedy ...

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Humanity is entering one of the most active eras of space missions ever recorded. From deep-space probes studying ancient cosmic history to robotic explorers targeting moons, asteroids, and Mars, 2025 ...

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As NASA fosters technologies needed to live and work farther away from home than ever before, the agency’s Technology Transfer program.