HOUSTON – As many people are busy sipping on margaritas and celebrating Cinco de Mayo, Americans have another reason to celebrate today. While May 5 marks the day Mexican army’s declared victory over ...

NGC 1961 can be found nearly 180 million light-years away from the earth in the constellation Camelopardalis. (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)) In a major development, NASA’s Hubble Space ...

At 9:06 am CST on October 27, 1961, NASA took its first step toward landing on the moon when it successfully launched the Saturn I rocket, its first designed specifically for space exploration. The ...

"Man, what a ride!”: The triumphant return to Earth of the first US man in space (three photos), Alan Shepard, Dean Conger [Mercury Redstone 3], 5 May 1961, 1961 ...

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1 February 1961: Ham the chimpanzee, part of Nasa’s programme to put a man in space, flew 155 miles up in the Mercury capsule Cape Canaveral, January 31. A chimpanzee named Ham, fired into space by ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fifty years to the moment Alan Shepard rocketed away, more than 100 Project Mercury workers joined former astronauts and NASA leaders at the original Redstone launchpad Thursday ...

'Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share...,' the ...