Archive for '- Space Race'
Merry Christmas from Space!
Once upon a time, space was quiet. This was before satellites had cluttered the orbit of the earth, beaming TV shows and text messages and GPS coordinates. Before 1958, space was very quiet. On December 18, 1958, the Air Force placed the first communications satellite, a Project SCORE relay vehicle, into orbit. And then, on [...]
Posted by Hilary on December 19, 2012, under - Cold War, - Presidents, - Space Race, Letters in the National Archives, Pennsylvania Avenue.
Tags: 1958, Christmas, Eisenhower, satellite, SCORE, space, Sputnik
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Explore the new Digital Archives at the Kennedy Library
It’s always exciting to uncover a new piece of history, and even more exciting to discover a whole new treasure trove of thousands of pieces of history. Today the John F. Kennedy Library is launching a new Digital Archives that contains over 200,000 digitized documents; 300 reels of audiotape containing over 1,200 individual recordings of telephone [...]
Posted by Mary on January 13, 2011, under - Space Race, - The 1960s, Uncategorized.
Tags: american history, digital archives, Kennedy Library, National archives and records administration, online access, presidential libraries, space race
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Are you there Venus? It’s me, Earth
Twenty years ago today, NASA dropped by our neighbor Venus to say hello and snap a few pictures. The Magellan probe entered orbit, took a terrestrial map of Venus, and then did something very rude: it crashed into the planet. Not very neighborly. Still, we gathered plenty of data from that crash (and it’s debatable whether [...]
Posted by Rob Crotty on August 10, 2010, under - Space Race, News and Events.
Tags: Add new tag, AOL, data, earth rise, lunar, Magellan, NASA, old websites, ringtone, space exploration, Venus, webpage archive
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