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20 Vintage Photos That Perfectly Capture NASA in the 1960s

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 ...
The Space Race on MSN

NASA Built Inflatable Balls for Space, and They Actually Worked

In the 1960s, NASA launched enormous reflective spheres called Echo satellites — massive inflatable orbs the size of ...
Gizmodo

1960’s NASA employment ads appealed to the science-fiction-loving kid in all of us

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 ...
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Katherine Johnson: African American woman who broke barriers at NASA in the 1960s dead at 101

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Aeronautics and astronautics an American chronology of science and technology in the exploration of space, 1915-1960 by Eugene M. Emme, NASA historian. Foreword by Hugh L. Dryden

Part I. From the founding of NACA [National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics] to the dawn of the space age, January 1915-October 1957 -- Part II. The first three years of the space age, October 1957 ...