NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made ...

On February 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight. Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful ...

From the first picture proving that Earth was indeed spherical, to the first color image clicked from the lunar surface, ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ... both imaged the Ranger 8 impact site at relatively low resolution in 1966 and 1972, respectively. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the ...

Both U.S. businesses are part of NASA’s effort to support commercial deliveries to ... The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 successfully touches down on the moon in 1966, after its predecessors crash or miss the ...

A New Era for American Private Lunar Missions Last year, Intuitive Machines became the first private company to successfully ...

Credit: NASA / JPL The Ranger 8 impact crater, shown by the blue circle, photographed by Lunar Orbiter 2 in 1966. Credit: NASA / JPL One more Ranger mission followed, Ranger 9, in March 1965.