NASA History

Going Home: NASA Retires S-3B Viking to POW/MIA Museum

After supporting the center’s research missions for more than a decade, NASA’s S-3B Viking aircraft is moving on from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland to begin a new and honorable assignment. The aircraft is heading to the National POW/MIA Memorial and Museum in Jacksonville, Florida, where it will be on display, honoring all Prisoners […]

Posted April 16, 2025

Glenn History

Glenn Research Center

NASA History

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

Turning Vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel

Men stand in front of turning vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in this February 1944 publicity photo. The photo was taken just weeks after the tunnel became operational.

Posted March 28, 2025

NASA History

Johnson Space Center

50 Years Ago: Final Saturn Rocket Rolls Out to Launch Pad 39

On March 24, 1975, the last in a long line of super successful Saturn rockets rolled out from the vehicle assembly building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Saturn IB rocket for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the 19th in the Saturn class stacked in the assembly building, beginning […]

Posted March 24, 2025

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General

Johnson Space Center

60 Years Ago: Gemini III, America’s First Two-Person Flight

On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young aboard, America’s first two-person spaceflight. Grissom earned the honor as the first person to enter space twice and Young as the first member of the second group of astronauts to fly in space. During their […]

Posted March 23, 2025

NASA History

Gemini III

Humans in Space

John W. Young

Virgil I. Grissom

Fallout from the Unauthorized Gemini III Space Sandwich

“I hid a sandwich in my spacesuit,” Astronaut John W. Young confessed in the April 2, 1965, issue of Life Magazine. The conversation about and the consumption of the sandwich, which lasted only about 30 seconds during the Gemini III flight, became a serious matter that drew the ire of Congress and NASA’s administrator after […]

Posted March 20, 2025

NASA History

Skylab

Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics

Observing Storms from Skylab

Skylab 3 astronauts witnessed many spectacular sights during their 858 orbital trips around the Earth in the summer of 1973. One involved watching powerful Hurricane Ellen take shape off the West African coast. “There’s a nice storm down there. She looks pretty big. She’s got a lot of clouds,” said astronaut Alan L. Bean upon […]

Posted March 18, 2025

Glenn Research Center

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Green Aviation Tech

NASA History

NASA’s Chevron Technology Quiets the Skies

Shortly after dawn on March 27, 2001, NASA pilot Bill Rieke took off from an airfield just outside of Phoenix in NASA’s blue-and-white Learjet 25 and flew low over a series of microphones for the first flight test of a groundbreaking NASA technology. On one of the plane’s engines was an experimental jagged-edged nozzle that […]

Posted March 11, 2025

NASA History

Johnson Space Center

40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes its Public Debut

On March 6, 1985, NASA’s newest space shuttle, Atlantis, made its public debut during a rollout ceremony at the Rockwell International manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California.

Posted March 10, 2025

NASA History

General

Johnson Space Center

30 Years Ago: STS-67, the Astro-2 Mission

On March 2, 1995, space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its eighth trip into space, on the STS-67 Astro-2 mission.

Posted March 4, 2025

NASA History

Johnson Space Center