On This Day in History - Newsletter

Astronaut Scott Carpenter wearing his Mercury spacesuit, 1962. Credit: NASA Astronaut Scott Carpenter flew only one mission, a relatively short ...

Apollo 10 crew left to right, Eugene Cernan, Thomas Stafford and John Young. Credit: NASA Launched from Cape Kennedy on May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 ...

Theodore Ellyson (left) and Glenn Curtiss (right) pilot an A-1. Credit: San Diego Air & Space Museum Commissioned on May 8, 1911, the Cu...

The Huntsville Times newspaper headline. Friday May 5, 1961. Credit: Space.com At 9:37 AM on May 5, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard of the US Nav...

On April 25, 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the cargo bay of space shuttle Discovery as part of mission STS-31. The Hubble tel...

Salyut 1, the world's first space station, was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. Construction of the space sta...

The Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1) being prepared for launch. April 1961. Credit: NASA The year is 1961. The United States and the Soviet U...

View of the launch pad during Space Shuttle Challenger's first launch. April 1983. Credit: NASA The Space Shuttle Challenger was launched succe...

Emblem for the SES-10/Falcon 9 mission. Credit: Space.com One year ago today, March 30, 2017, the 32nd flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket ...

The USS Langley during her conversion to an Aircraft Carrier, 1921. Credits: NavSource On March 20, 1920 the USS Langley was commissioned by th...

The Purdue Exponent, March 18, 1937. Credits: Purdue University On March 17, 1937, alongside over 5000 cheering fans, Amelia Earhart departed fr...

OSO-1 launch cover. Credits: Colorado State University Launched on March 7, 1962, OSO-1 was the first of 8 Orbiting Solar Observatories deve...