标签： NASA历史

Powtawche Valerino is a guidance engineer who works for Aerodyne Industries at the NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, supporting the agency’s Space Launch System program. She has worked at four different NASA facilities as an intern and as a full-time employee or contractor at Stennis Space Center, Johnson Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center a...

A student from Sinte Gleska University, an accredited tribal university on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, works to build a model rover for a NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) rover competition at the 2018 American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Student Conference. View the Native American Heritage Month gallery. Ten Ways to Celebra...

This week in 1967, the Apollo 4 mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The mission marked the first launch of the Saturn V rocket. Mission objectives included testing of structural integrity, compatibility of rocket and spacecraft, heat shield and thermal seal integrity, overall reentry operations, launch loads and dynamic characteristics, stage ...

Born on August 5, 1930, Neil Armstrong would have been 89 years old today. During his lifetime, he was a man of many accomplishments and when he landed on the Moon, he walked into the history books. Armstrong changed the course of history as the commander of the Apollo 11 mission, landing humanity on another celestial body for the very first time and fulfill...

Lost in the glare following the Apollo 11 Moon landing, two intrepid robotic spacecraft flew by Mars in the summer of 1969 and returned photographs and a trove of scientific information. Launched on Feb. 25 and March 27, respectively, Mariner 6 and 7 arrived at Mars just five days apart despite being launched a month apart. After a flight of 156 days from Ea...