In Pasadena, California, in the early summer of 1976, the engineers and scientists of NASA's Viking mission hoped to do something no one had ever done before: land a fully operational spacecraft on ...

Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first discovery of organic molecules on Mars, according to a report from New Scientist. Scientists didn't ...

Last week NASA released in full its circa-1976 “NASA Graphics Standards Manual” to the public after a demand was raised by a Kickstarter campaign to release it in glorious hardback. The hefty guide ...

We’ve spent decades and billions of dollars to answer one simple question: is there life on Mars? But according to an opinion piece for Scientific American by former NASA scientist Gilbert Levin, we ...

Nasa's first space shuttle ever built. The enterprise was unveiled to the public on september 17th 1976 and *** year after its public unveiling, the Enterprise became the first space shuttle to fly ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On July 20, 1969, NASA put a man on the moon ...