WASHINGTON, D.C.- You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or an astronaut to work for NASA. Engineers, pilots, physicists, astrobiologists, and, yes, artists, too, have helped further the mission of the space agency. In 1962, NASA administrator James E…
Newly Released Tape Shows John F. Kennedy Fretted Moon Program was Tough Sell
BOSTON, MA (AP).- After setting a soaring vision to land a man on the moon, President John F. Kennedy struggled with how to sell the public on a costly space program he worried had “lost its glamour” and had scant political benefits, according to a new…
NASA Announces Space Shuttles Going to Florida, California, Suburban Washington
CAPE CANAVERAL (AP).- On a memorable day in space history, NASA began its goodbyes to the shuttle program Tuesday, announcing the aged spacecraft will retire to museums in Cape Canaveral, Los Angeles and suburban Washington and sending a test-flight or…
Bonhams Blasts Off with Historic Apollo 14 Artifacts and Russian Spacesuits Sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Personal items of several astronauts will be sold in the Space History Sale taking place at Bonhams, New York on May 5th. The sale will commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Alan Shepard’s historic mission on Freedom 7 as the first Am…