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Author Sharman Apt Russell writes to her deceased father, Captain Milburn Apt, who passed away testing the X-2 rocket plane.

After the Second World War, the Soviet Union and the United States entered a period of heightened antagonism as jet propulsion made plane travel commonplace and a new American obsession took hold — space travel.

The Mars Desert Research Station in Utah is dedicated to examining how humans may explore Mars. 

Unknown to many, Snoopy has been working with NASA since the late 1950s, even before man first stepped on the moon.

Once a month, Home Town Buffet becomes a meeting spot for engineers who built Apollo spacecraft.

You think you know, but you don't. A short, but interesting history of pop culture's longstanding relationship with space exploration.

Even after years of studying it, the moon remains a source of mystery. 

Southern California has hosted some of the biggest events in aviation and has been a hotbed of innovation in space travel since the industry’s birth. Its abundant blue skies hold aloft the American dream. We look back at some milestones from the advent of the airplane through the Second World War.

There have been numerous women on the ground who made NASA's journeys possible. The following women are just a fraction of the Asian Americans whose remarkable work continues to impact the investigation of worlds beyond our own.

In 1970, President Richard Nixon gave Apollo 11 lunar samples to 135 friendly countries and U.S. states. Now, many of those samples are unaccounted for.