NASA. In 1959, John Glenn was selected as a Project Mercury astronaut. On Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn blasted into space aboard Mercury's Friendship 7 capsule, ...

NASA announced the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts on April 9, 1959. The group was quickly dubbed the “Mercury Seven,” as the men were chosen for Project Mercury. The ...

NASA’s sleek and wavy logo from the 1970s is set to make its return on a SpaceX Falcon 9 scheduled to launch in May ... in 1959, and replaced by the worm from 1975 until 1992. ...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an executive order authorizing the seal in November 1959, around the same time that NASA's first orders for stationery, lapel pins and decals with Modarelli's ...

Bullish - Video. TIROS Satellite: NASA's Revolutionary Weather Forecasting Technology (1958-1959) Posted: March 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 25, 2025 ...

NASA started using the meatball in 1959, a year after its founding. It was the logo on Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit when he stepped on the moon in 1969. The worm is a child of the ’70s.

The new astronaut candidate class is NASA’s 23rd since 1959, when seven astronauts were picked by the military for Project Mercury, the first American human spaceflight program.