In the 1950s, NASA engineer Robert T. Jones envisioned a wing unlike any before it - one that could pivot mid-flight to optimize performance at any speed. At low speeds, it stretched straight for ...
NASA and several other space agencies are today vying to land humans again on the Moon. But, do you know there was a time when the Americans planned to nuke our lunar satellite? This might sound like ...
Katherine Johnson was, for a time, one of the great unsung American heroes of the space race. The mathematician, who passed away on Feb. 24 at the age of 101, worked at NASA during in the 1950s and ...