Air Force Special Projects Production Facility

March 2, 2015

According to Wikipedia, "The Air Force Special Projects Production Facility was a top-secret facility operational at Westover Air Force Base…

Corona Satellite / Discoverer Program

March 2, 2015

Background Corona was the name of a series of the U.S. military reconnaissance satellites operated under a CIA program run…

Carl Sagan Papers

March 2, 2015

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and highly successful popularizer…

Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight

March 2, 2015

This is a volume consisting of scholarship on the current state of the discipline of space history presented in a…

Hubble Space Telescope

March 2, 2015

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery in…

Life on Europa

March 2, 2015

In 1997, frozen oceans and spewing volcanoes were found on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons in our…

Original Wizards of Langley

March 2, 2015

Background This overview and collection of documents and other material related to the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) offer a…

NASA’s Exploration Systems Architecture Study

March 2, 2015

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) Final Report documents the analyses and findings of the…

Project Horizon

March 2, 2015

Background Project Horizon was a 1959 study to determine the feasibility of constructing a scientific / military base on the…

STS-51 – Challenger Disaster – January 28, 1986

March 2, 2015

Background Challenger was destroyed in the second minute of STS-51-L, the orbiter's tenth mission, on January 28, 1986 at 11:38:00…