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Visitors assemble space station elements in the Moving Beyond Earth gallery.

In the Museum: My Vostok Is Bigger Than Your Mercury

Launching two very different capsules—and a space race.
August 2011 | By Rebecca Maksel

A&S Interview: Story Musgrave

The veteran astronaut is the only person to fly on all five space shuttle orbiters.
August 2010 | By Diane Tedeschi

X-15 drop from the B-52

Above and Beyond: An Extra Two Seconds

May 2010 | By Robert M. White as told to Al Hallonquist

Kraft in Mission Control in July 1965.

A&S Interview: Chris Kraft

NASA's first Flight Director assesses the state of the space program 40 years after Apollo.
March 2010 | By Michael Klesius

The Soviet Skif-DM launches from Baikonur.

Soviet Star Wars

The launch that saved the world from orbiting laser battle stations.
January 2010 | By Dwayne A. Day and Robert G. Kennedy III

“Little Joe” capsules were the precursors of Alan Shepard’s Mercury spacecraft.

How the Spaceship Got Its Shape

In the 1950s Harvey Allen solved the problem of atmospheric entry. But first he had to convince his colleagues.
November 2009 | By Andrew Chaikin

The shadow of their lander dominates a mosaic of the numbered photos Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took out their window before leaving the moon.

Finding Apollo

Forty years later, we’re about to see what the moonwalkers left behind.
September 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

A Little Joe II during launch

Confidence Booster

This little known Apollo artifact caused astronauts to rest a little easier.
June 13, 2008 | By Bob Craddock

Throughout his life, Soviet space designer Mikhail Tikhonravov (left) never got the credit or acclaim accorded to Sergei Korolev, his friend. Ten years before they launched the world

The Man Behind the Curtain

Space czar Sergei Korolev won fame for the launch of Sputnik, but a more modest genius deserves the credit.
November 2007 | By Asif Siddiqi

A & S Interview: David Sington

In the Shadow of the Moon.
November 01, 2007 | By Tony Reichhardt

Laika's Tale

Fifty years after her flight, a new graphic novel recounts the saga of the dog that made space history.
November 01, 2007 | By Tony Reichhardt

Jay Barbree (left)and Gus Grissom around the time of the astronaut

Before the Fire

Veteran space reporter Jay Barbree recalls Apollo's darkest day.
November 01, 2007 | By Jay Barbree

The author, whose father was first secretary for the Soviet Communist Paty from 1953 to 1964, relaxes in his office at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

We Shocked the World

Nikita Khrushchev's son recalls the night Sputnik made history.
August 2007 | By Sergei Khrushchev (Translated by Lyudmila Khomenko Chillico)

After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age, Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2007.

It All Started with Sputnik

An eminent space historian looks back on the first 50 years of space exploration.
July 2007 | By Roger D. Launius

To test human responses to G forces, the Navy put subjects in a 10- by six-foot oblate steel sphere at the end of a 50-foot arm.

The G Machine

Riding an Atlas into space was a piece of cake compared to pulling 32 Gs on the Johnsville centrifuge.
May 2007 | By Mark Wolverton

In the Museum: Model Employee

May 2007 | By Sara Duncan Widness

Footprint at Tranquility Base, July 1969.

My Favorite Artifact: The Apollo Landing Sites

This space historian's ideal exhibit is one that's not quite ready to open.
January 2007 | By Diane Tedeschi

PLSS backpacks

How did the Apollo astronauts toss their spacesuits overboard?

Hint: They kept the most important part.
January 01, 2007 | By Joe Pappalardo

Norman Rockwell's Ghost

The most artistic collaboration of the entire Apollo program.
September 2006 | By Pierre Mion

Grissom

Home on the Plains

Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule settles down in Kansas.
September 2006 | By Paul Hoversten


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