Apollo 13
Before it was a major motion picture, Apollo 13 was a real-life drama that unfolded in 1970.
1st American Woman in Space
In 1983, NASA astronaut, Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space – changing the face, and gender of spaceflight!
1st Astronaut on Mir
In 1995 the Russian and American space agencies decided to get together in the most inspiring international collaboration, in space!
1st Cosmonaut on Shuttle
In 1994, two superpowers joined forces in space - and made international history above the clouds.
1958 Comeback
On July 29, 1958 the US launched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA as it is known.
In 1998 officials from 15 countries met in Washington to sign the 1998 Intergovernmental Agreement on Space Station Cooperation.
Apollo 8 On Christmas Eve in 1968, the country and the world waited breathlessly, as the Apollo 8 spacecraft and her crew took mankind’s first trip to the moon.
Apollo 11
At 10:56PM Eastern Standard Time on July 20, 1969 the world watched as the Eagle landed and Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the lunar surface.
Apollo 15 Rover
In 1971 we had already walked on the moon, but with this NASA first we were driving on it!
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Program was a symbolic end to the nearly 20-year-long Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Cassini-Huygens The Cassini-Huygens Probe is has changed the way we'll look at Saturn and her moons forever.
DeBakey and NASA Heart Pump Two decades of an innovative collaboration began when a NASA engineer, the late David Saucier, became a patient of famed heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey.
Deep Impact Deep Impact blew up the equivalent of 5 tons of TNT on a comet and snapped some really great pictures from it.
Eileen Collins The first woman to command a space shuttle mission, Eileen Collins has spent quite a lot of time in space.
Endeavour Sixteen years ago, a NASA Space Shuttle, named after a legendary British exploring ship, left Earth on its dramatic maiden voyage.
Expedition 1 Crew On November 2, 2000 the first human crew took up residence in space, turning science fiction into reality!
F-8 Supercritical Wing Aerodynamics research in the 1970's led to the design of the supercritical wing, increasing efficiency on airplanes.
First Flight Shuttle Twenty years after Russia launched the first human into space, NASA launched another first - the first space shuttle.
First Shuttle Spacewalk In 1983, NASA astronauts Donald Peterson and F. Story Musgrave stepped out for the very first spacewalk of the Shuttle Program.
Friendship 7 On February 20, 1962, John Glenn, Jr. became the first American to orbit the Earth, and established the United States as a major competitor in the Space Race.
Galileo Named after the famed astronomer, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft was launched in 1989 on the first mission to Jupiter.
Having sent hundreds of thousands of images back to Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope is quite the piece of equipment.
Insulating Paint Powder What if all paint were green? Well, there would be a lot more eco-friendly walls!
John Glenn Returns to Space 
Whoever said, “history repeats itself” must have known John Glenn. Thirty-six years after Glenn flew aboard Friendship 7, he returned to space, as the oldest human to fly in space.
Kennedy's Message On May 25th 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon.
LANDSAT Back in 1972, NASA decided to turn its sights from space to Earth and launched LANDSAT.
Last Apollo Mission By December 14, 1972, the United States had successfully brought several men to the moon, ending that era of lunar exploration.
Launch of NASA On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing an agency to conduct all non-military activity in space.
LCVG Spinoff Innovative NASA technology made man’s trips to the moon a “cool” venture – and has continued to make history ever since!
Leland Melvin The end of Leland Melvin's football career marked the beginning of his career as an astronaut.
Magellan The Magellan spacecraft was the first to orbit Venus, the spot of its eventual resting place.
NASA's Mariner became the first spacecraft to actually orbit the planet of Mars.
MMU Wearing a manned maneuvering unit, NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless performed the first untethered space walk on February 3, 1984.
NASA Parachute Saves Lives Five years ago, a pilot’s parachute-landing into a Texas Mesquite tree grove made aviation history and became a NASA success story!
NASA's Greatest Hits For half a century, NASA has amassed an impressive collection of greatest hits - and it's that 'star' quality that has moved the space program to the top of the charts!
NEAR Did you know that NASA actually landed on an asteroid!?
Pioneer 5 Pioneer 5 took to the skies with the mission of mapping the interplanetary magnetic field.
Project Mercury On October 7, 1958, the newly formed NASA announced its plans for the groundbreaking Project Mercury.
Reagan and the ISS Twenty-four years ago a U.S. President green-lit a project that would forever alter the country's space program.
Skylab 20 years before the International Space Station, there was Skylab, the first space station.
Spirit and Opportunity It’s been four years since NASA’s most famous twin geologists landed on the Martian surface – and they’ve been breaking ground ever since!
Stardust When this NASA mission was launched, it had a roundtrip ticket back home, including souvenirs!
Terra Terra is the most comprehensive global monitoring program helping give us a heads up when bad weather is on the way.
The Space Suit Microclimate Forty years of NASA spacesuit technology has helped everyone from Multiple Sclerosis sufferers to sports stars.
TIROS Back in 1962, NASA took an experimental step to determine if satellites could be useful to the study of our planet, using the Television Infrared Observation Satellite Program, or TIROS.
Twin Voyagers The Twin Voyagers set out to explore just two planets... but they ended up telling us a lot more.
Viking 1 and 2 The Viking Missions gave the world its first up close and personal view of our galactic neighbor Mars.
Winglets In 1987 the Winglet was introduced as a more efficient wing for airplanes. Today, nearly all jumbo jets use the technology.
X-15 A year after NASA's inception, the X-15 set both a speed and altitude record.
Surveyor 1 In 1966, NASA's Surveyor I landed on the Moon's Ocean of Storms, and sent over 11 hundred photos back to Earth.