The NASA HQ Historical Reference Collection (HRC) is a nearly 2000 cubic foot collection offering NASA staff and qualified researchers a glimpse into the agency's rich and vast history. The HRC, …

Women at NASA —Dr. Nancy Roman, NASA's first Chief Astronomer These collections are not meant to be exhaustive; they are meant to get researchers started in the right direction. Further, only content …

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Monographs in Aerospace History (SP-4500) These are studies, shorter than book length, that focus on specific issues in NASA’s history that have immediate relevance for public policy formulation and …

The following suggestions for citations of Internet sources in history and the historically based humanities are derived from the essential principles of academic citation in Kate L. Turabian, *A …

NASA History NASA History The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub.L. 85-568) created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Section 20112 (a) (3) of the Act directs …

Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball …

A Phone Call From The White House. With this task completed, Mission Control put through to the crew the longest long-distance telephone call in man's history. It originated in the White House and was …

I was born in Imola, Italy, in 1975; received a degree in electrical engineering, and work as a programmer. I am interested in hardware and software related to the Apollo era and also love hiking …

USSR: Sputnik II (508.3 kg), with dog Laika as passenger, launched December 6, 1957