NASA announced the selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts on April 9, 1959. The group was quickly dubbed the “Mercury Seven,” as the men were chosen for Project Mercury. The ...

NASA’s current logo dates back to 1959. It’s sort of a mess—a wonderful, retro-nostalgic mess—that’s hard to reproduce and doesn’t scale well. In fact, NASA even changed to a different logo that ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Bill Fecych (seated) and Don Johnson work in the reactor control room during its operating days in 1959. After an ad hoc committee study in 1977, ...

Explorer 6, launched August 7, 1959, from Cape Canaveral, had a primary mission to investigate Earth's magnetic fields, radiation, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, and micrometeorites. The satellite ...