[https://youtu.be/VV6QeZFaVSQ] (YouTube link)Presi...  ...nt Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958. That act transferred the du...  ...vilian agency called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA came about as a respo...  ...SA came about as a response t...

In 1966, Robert Lawrence, Jr. had a PhD in physica...  ...ence the first black astronaut ever. However, the space program he was selected for was one you've probably never...  ...ould get on board with; conducting experiments in space . The program was approved in 1962 and assig...

It was 49 years ago today, January 27, 1967, that...  ...was a simulation of the countdown and launch. The spaceship cabin was filled with 100% oxygen.Just after 6:31...  ...e died that day, the first casualties of the U.S. space program . It took a year of meticulous investigation to de...

In the early '70s, NASA revamped their array of space food to get ready for astronauts spending more ti...  ...to get ready for astronauts spending more time in space . Wine was added to the menu for the Skylab space station, and an American sherry was chosen for it...  ...ry...

Surely you've heard that old joke about the Americ...  ...d that old joke about the American and Soviet and space programs :During the space race back in the 1960's, NASA was faced with a ma...  ...ut needed a pen that would write in the vacuum of space . NASA went to work. At a...

In 1970, during the Luna 17 mission, the Soviet space program landed the first ever remote-controlled vehicle o...

Many Americans know the V-2 rocket mainly as the b...  ...now the V-2 rocket mainly as the beginning of the space program . That was Wernher von Braun's dream from the begi...  ...from the underground factory and, under a larger program best known as Paperclip, brought more than 125 Ge...