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20 Vintage Photos That Perfectly Capture NASA in the 1960s

Travel back to the 1960s, a decade when space exploration was still a daring experiment and NASA was writing history with every launch. These 20 images offer a rare glimpse into the early days of the ...
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NASA scientists working on calculations in the 1960s

Before computers, NASA relied on “human computers” — mathematicians who solved complex equations for flight paths and ...

NASA Can Open Up the Solar System With Nuclear Propulsion

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolit ...
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Katherine Johnson: African American woman who broke barriers at NASA in the 1960s dead at 101

Katherine Johnson, a former NASA mathematician whose story inspired the movie Hidden Figures, has died, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said Monday. She was 101. Johnson was born in White Sulphur ...
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Aeronautics and astronautics an American chronology of science and technology in the exploration of space, 1915-1960 by Eugene M. Emme, NASA historian. Foreword by Hugh L. Dryden

Part I. From the founding of NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] to the dawn of the space age, January 1915-October 1957 -- Part II. The first three years of the space age, October 1957 ...