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On October 4, 1957, the United States received the greatest single blow to its prestige since the burning of the White House in 1814 with...

Before NASA, there was NACA, an oddball collection of aeronautics nerds using black box data and wind tunnel analysis to figure out as...

The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six...

When it comes finally time to settle Mars, the most terrifying sound might not be *RRRIP* or ‘I'‘m sorry, Dave, I don'‘t WANT to turn the...

In between landing on the moon in July of 1969 and launching the first space shuttle into orbit in April of 1981, NASA learned a few...

This day, let us speak of a new type of hero, one whose life story is not told as a sum of new products invented and foisted upon an...

The story of the Mercury 13, as it is usually told, features 13 heroes, 2 villains, and a throng of supportive roles stretched between...

Heroes are supposed to be monodimensional, startling and exceptional in one narrow aspect of life and a complex, barely functioning mess...