Travel back to the 1960s, a decade when space exploration was still a daring experiment and NASA was writing history with every launch. These 20 images offer a rare glimpse into the early days of the ...

During the space race of the 1960’s, NASA spent millions upon millions of dollars to develop a pen that could write in space.

Katherine Johnson, a former NASA mathematician whose story inspired the movie Hidden Figures, has died, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said Monday. She was 101. Johnson was born in White Sulphur ...

As far as job adverts go, it doesn’t get much better than this. Originally featured in a 1967 issue of Scientific American, the full-page ad by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory resonates perfectly ...

When the Apollo astronauts snapped some 18,000 photographs on the moon in the 1960s, they did so with some very 1960s camera technology. Lacking viewfinders, the astronauts had to attach their cameras ...

Most of NASA is a pretty buttoned-down place these days. Nearly 70 years old, the space agency is no longer the rambunctious adolescent it was during the race to the Moon in the 1960s. If you go to a ...

NASA's budget has declined compared with the 1960s, when the U.S. was in a space race with the former Soviet Union. (Gregg Newton/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) Getting back to the moon isn’t ...