When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.
On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...
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 ...