Narrator: But the spacesuits NASA currently uses are more than 40 years old. 18 suits were developed for the Space Shuttle program in 1974 and have vastly overworked their original 15-year-life ...
He was 102. Lucas served as the fourth director of the Huntsville-based space flight center, from June 1974 to July 1986. According to his biography on the NASA website, Lucas “was instrumental ...
Donaldjohanson—named for the anthropologist who discovered the fossilized hominid Lucy in 1974—is a small main belt asteroid at roughly 3 miles (4 kilometers) in diameter. Newly released NASA ...