space history

Later this month, some of the original videotapes that captured the first Moon landing will be auctioned off to the…

Hutchinson, Kansas isn’t the kind of place you’d wind up if you weren’t looking to. The placid prairie town sits a…

The overdrawn game of nuclear chicken between the USSR and the United States—now known as the Cold War—lasted about…

One of President Trump’s first actions after taking office was to institute a federal hiring freeze, leaving…

John Glenn, an aviation legend and the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, died this afternoon at the age…

Landing on Mars is hard, but the European Space Agency’s first attempt—the Beagle 2 probe—came maddeningly close to…

On May 23rd, 1967, the United States Air Force scrambled to ready nuclear missile-laden aircraft for deployment.…

A flown spacesuit from an ISS mission, a navigational globe from an Soyuz mission in the 1970s, lunar navigation…

The internet was all abuzz today over newly-declassified tape of Apollo 10 astronauts catching a broadcast of alien…

Look at this picture of Saturn. Can you see the biggest ring? Are you sure?

A team of scientists has finished analyzing rocks collected by the Chinese lunar rover Yutu in 2013 — the first…

Two spacecraft drifted closer to one another far above planet Earth, as they prepared to dock. It was July 17^th,…

After decades of neglect, Venus might just be making a comeback. Late last month, NASA announced five finalists for…

George Mueller, the NASA administrator who helped steer the agency during the 1960s and was known as the ‘father of…

It’s official. The Smithsonian’s crowdfunding campaign to preserve and display Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit…

Neil Armstrong (blowing a kiss to his sons) is flanked by Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin on July 27, 1969 at…

On the 23rd and 24th of January, 1930, a young astronomer working in Flagstaff, Arizona, scanned a small patch of…

On March 23, 1965, astronaut John Young reached into his pocket and offered his crewmate Gus Grissom a corned beef…

Over the last couple of weeks, the Dawn Spacecraft has been beaming back spectacular pictures of Ceres – a…

In earlier decades, when someone reached for a smoke, they might shake out a cigarette from a box featuring the…