History

The Mercury monument, honoring the original seven astronauts, is shown here at sunrise at Pad 14 in December, 1964. Photo Credit: NASA. The Mercury Monument stands outside of Complex 14 was dedicated on...

Former NASA astronaut Gordon Fullerton passed away this week. In memory of the death of a great astronaut, here is our photo and video history collection for STS-3, the third flight of space shuttle...

It's been 20 years since the remarkable DC-X Delta Clipper Single-Stage-To-Orbit (SSTO) test vehicle made its first flight. Many people still believe DC-X should have been the chosen vehicle for NASA's X-33...

The first international partnership in space wasn't the International Space Station. It wasn't even the Shuttle-Mir series of missions. It was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first international human...

MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Welcome to the  campus of George Washington University in downtown  Washington, D.C., for what promises to be a very remarkable  afternoon. My name is John Logsdon. I am the...

The twin launch gantries that mark Space Launch Complex 17 bridge the Space Age from the early days when small rockets achieving modest successes made headlines to the modern era of large boosters regularly...