However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying a series of harrowing missions during which it seems a ...

Image specialist Andy Saunders on mining NASA's archives for the ultimate record of America's early space programs ...

Never-before-seen photographs have been released showing NASA astronauts testing the limits of human endurance and technology needed to get humans to the moon and back. The restored photos from the ...

On Sept. 14, 1966, NASA's Gemini 11 mission set an all-time spaceflight altitude record when two astronauts reached an orbit of 850 miles above the Earth. This remains the highest altitude ever ...

When people think of NASA, despite all the work it does monitoring the Earth's climate and exploring the bodies of the Solar System, most people's minds go to the Apollo era, when the US space agency ...

Bestselling author and digital photography expert Andy Saunders reveals iconic NASA moments in Gemini And Mercury Remastered, restoring decades-old Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury images.

John Harrell dedicated over four decades of his career as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, ...

A "deeply personal" set of images filmed by NASA astronauts which includes the first ever selfie taken in space has been restored after years lying locked in a vault in Houston. They capture moments ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...