NASA Retires S-3B Viking to POW/MIA Museum
After supporting the center’s research missions for more than a decade, NASA’s S-3B Viking aircraft is moving on from NASA’s ...
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Turning Vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel
Men stand in front of turning vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ...
Read moreDetails60 Years Ago: Gemini III, America’s First Two-Person Flight
On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young ...
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Fallout from the Unauthorized Gemini III Space Sandwich
“I hid a sandwich in my spacesuit,” Astronaut John W. Young confessed in the April 2, 1965, issue of Life ...
Read moreDetails55 Years Ago: Preps for Apollo 13 and 14, Apollo 12 Crew on World Tour
With two months to go before flight, the Apollo 13 prime crew of James Lovell, Thomas Mattingly, Fred Haise, and ...
Read moreDetails25 Years Ago: STS-99, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
On Feb. 11, 2000, space shuttle Endeavour took to the skies on its 14th trip into space on the Shuttle ...
Read moreDetails15 Years Ago: STS-130 Delivers Tranquility and Cupola to Space Station
On Feb. 8, 2010, space shuttle Endeavour began its 24th trip into space, on the 20A assembly mission to the ...
Read moreDetails40 Years Ago: STS-51C, the First Dedicated Department of Defense Shuttle Mission
On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the ...
Read moreDetails60 Years Ago: Uncrewed Gemini 2 Paves the Way for the First Crewed Mission
On Jan. 19, 1965, Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its ...
Read moreDetailsMedia Invited to Speak to NASA Ames Experts – Celebrating 85 Years
NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, is celebrating 85 years of cutting-edge research and development in space, life ...
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