NASA History
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NASA Center Boosted YF-12 Supersonic Engine Research
[ad_1] Supersonic flight became a reality in October 1947, when the Bell X-1 rocket plane broke the sound barrier. NASA’s…
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55 Years Ago: Five Months Until the Moon Landing – NASA
[ad_1] Following the success of the Apollo 8 circumlunar mission, NASA believed that it could achieve a Moon landing by…
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NASA Goddard’s Beginnings in Project Vanguard – NASA
[ad_1] In the dawn of the Space Age, a group of scientists and engineers from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)…
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30 Years Ago: Clementine Changes Our View of the Moon – NASA
[ad_1] In 1994, a joint NASA and Department of Defense (DOD) mission called Clementine dramatically changed our view of the…
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40 Years Ago: President Reagan Directs NASA to Build a Space Station – NASA
[ad_1] On Jan. 25, 1984, President Ronald W. Reagan directed NASA to build a permanently inhabited Earth orbiting space station…
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NASA Glenn Established in Cleveland in 1941 – NASA
[ad_1] On January 23, 1941, local authorities, military representatives, and agency officials assembled in Cleveland to initiate construction of the…
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NASA Glenn’s Langley Legacy – NASA
[ad_1] “[On December 15, 1941] a few shivering, startled Southerners from Langley, the vanguard of those in the Power Plants…
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NASA’s Deep Space Network Turns 60 and Prepares for the Future – NASA
[ad_1] The agency’s DSN provides critical communications and navigation services to dozens of space missions, and it’s being modernized to…
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An Apollo 8 Christmas Dinner Surprise: Turkey and Gravy Make Space History – NASA
[ad_1] On Christmas Day in 1968, the three-man Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders found…
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55 Years Ago: Seven Months Before the Moon Landing – NASA
[ad_1] December 1968 ended a year more turbulent than most. For the American space program, however, it brought the Moon…
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