space-history

Neil Armstrong’s most widely remembered remark about the Moon landing is, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind,” spoken on July 20, 1969, as he...

The first person of Hispanic heritage to fly in space was Franklin Chang‑Díaz, a NASA astronaut of Costa Rican and Chinese descent who flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia...

Alan Shepard is famous for becoming the first American to travel into space and into lunar orbit, and later the fifth person to walk on the Moon. His career, spanning the Mercur...

The first all-female spacewalk was a targeted ISS Extravehicular Activity (EVA) in which two NASA astronauts conducted a scheduled upgrade and maintenance task outside the Inter...

Michael Collins played a singular role in humanity’s journey to the Moon as the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 11. While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar...

No, Buzz Aldrin was not the first person on the Moon. Neil Armstrong was the first. Aldrin was the second person to walk on the Moon during Apollo 11 in July 1969. This distinct...

Apollo 13 was a 1970 NASA mission intended to land astronauts on the Moon that became a dramatic demonstration of engineering resilience and crew survival. Launched on April 11,...

The first civilian in space was Valentina Tereshkova, launched by the Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. As a textile-factory worker and amateur parachutist selected...

Yes, all three Apollo 13 crew members survived the mission. Launched on April 11, 1970, an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon forced the crew to abandon the lunar landin...

The first Latino in space was Franklin R. Chang‑Díaz, a Costa‑Rican‑American physicist and former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia on STS‑61‑...