Nasa 1960s

The Apollo program evolved from projects Mercury and Gemini, successfully setting the feet of human beings on the moon six times and a total of 12 astronauts between 1961 and 1972.

On the 50th anniversary of NASA's Mission Control Center, we look back at where it all started.

This Las Vegas newspaper captures the excitement as two American astronauts explore the moon's surface on July 20. Earlier in the day, President Richard Nixon had led the nation in prayer for a successful moon landing.

It’s not clear who was the first woman to menstruate in space, but someone did it and the answer came back just as the female astronauts expected it would,

Dear Friends & Neighbors, (Please click on red links & note magenta) President Barack Obama congratulates former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and Unite…

Jeanette Scissum joined NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 after earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Alabama A&M University. Scissum published a NASA report in 1967, “Survey of Solar Cycle Prediction Models,” which put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot cycle.

NASA before Powerpoint (c.1960) by J.R. Eyerman for LIFE Magazine

Saturn SA-9 Lift-off

SCAN AND REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont

Leonardo da Vinci, Benajmin Frankling, Nicholas Tesla, and Thomas Edison believed they could predict the future. It's a trait all men and women share—we dream, we believe, we cross our fingers, we make progress.