Humanity’s exploration of space grew from centuries of astronomy, mathematics and experimentation into one of the most ambitious technological undertakings in history. During the twentieth century, ...

USA 250 Most Treasured Views is a USA TODAY Network- El Paso Times project exploring places across America with historical and cultural significance, created in celebration of the USA 250 initiative ...

In the 1960s and 70s, private initiatives such as this seemed unrealistic given the absolute dominance of state-funded space research. But is government-funded space research really the rule and ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. We live in an extraordinary period of exploration. Over the last few decades, humanity ...

Space exploration has always carried extreme risk, and some pioneers paid for progress with their lives. While only a handful of people have died beyond Earth’s atmosphere, many more were lost during ...

The launch of Artemis II may have slipped on the calendar, but it has not lost its geopolitical meaning. While the highly anticipated blast-off of NASA’s Space Launch System from Kennedy Space Center ...

Astronaut and geophysicist Andrew Feustel is a veteran of three NASA spaceflights and alumnus of Purdue EAPS. Currently he is Lead Astronaut with Vast. He spoke with Lucy Flesch, Frederick L. Hovde ...