Fred Durant, George Mueller, and Bob Farquhar Honored at The Smithsonian “There are three displays presently located in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC honoring Fred Durant, […]
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More NASA History Destroyed in Alabama (Update)
Heroic Junkyard Owner Says He Saved Priceless Moon Rover From Scrap Heap, Motherboard “Tuesday, we told the sad story of a prototype NASA lunar rover that was sold by an […]
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Bad News From Earth
11 September 2001: Bad news from Earth, New Moon Rising “In Washington, and all along the east coast, it was another one of those classic clear September days [Bill] Readdy […]
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NASA Worm Logo User Guide Update
Keith’s note: As I noted last week there is a Kickstarter effort to recreate the NASA 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual – the document that spelled out how NASA’s new […]
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Apollo-Soyuz Lessons
What We Can Learn From a Forty-Year Old Handshake in Space, Ron Garan “For the first 15 years of my adult life, I trained to fight the Russians as a […]
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Bernice Steadman
Bernice Steadman, part of NASA’s ‘Mercury 13’ dies, AP “A woman who was among 13 selected for training as possible astronauts in the early 1960s has died at her northern […]
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National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Turns 100
Celebrate the Centennial of NASA’s Predecessor: The NACA “Today marks a special anniversary for the NASA family. It was 100 years ago, on March 3, 1915, when Congress created the […]
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Remembrance
NASA Administrator Message: Day of Remembrance – Jan. 28, 2015 “Today we remember and give thanks for the lives and contributions of those who gave all trying to push the […]
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JSC Is Abandoning NASA History
Keith’s note: NASA JSC is shutting down its Media Research Center. The MRC employees, with more than a century of collective service stretching back to the Apollo era, are being […]
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A Message from NASA's First Administrator
Keith’s note: Today is NASA’s 56th birthday. This video contains NASA’s first Administrator T. Keith Glennan delivering a message to employees of NACA about “N – A – S – […]