On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...

Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that ...

When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.

At age 27 on the morning of 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was helped into his spacesuit and made his way to the ...

On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...

For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

On Jan. 25, 2004, NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars and sent its first pictures of the planet to Earth; originally planned as a 90-day mission, the rover remained operational for over 15 years, ...

James Webb, NASA’s second administrator, who held the office between 1961 and 1968, is often credited as being integral in maintaining political support for the Apollo program. Dan Goldin, the longest ...

The building served as NASA HQ from 1958 to 1961. At that point, NASA moved to a federal building in D.C. before expanding into two other locations in D.C. before its current home base at 300 E ...