John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight took less than five hours. But the lessons NASA learned that day continue to propel the agency forward today. The United States was falling behind in the space race in ...

James Brown‘s live shows, with his exhilarating stage presence and vocal prowess, were the sort you had to see to believe, or ...

JFK understood the value of space flight for foreign relations -- something Richard Nixon took even further, with Operation Moonglow helping to end the Vietnam War. NY Post photo composite In 1962, ...

The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 vision of placing a man on the moon within the span of a decade would require not just a powerful spacecraft, but a powerful and efficiently sized guidance computer ...

Hidden Figures dramatized the true story of four black women whose mathematical skills enabled NASA’s Mercury program to send John Glenn into orbit in 1962; coming on the heels of that movie, this ...

Editor’s Note: This story was updated Nov. 15, 2022. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy told a crowded stadium at Rice University that the U.S. would lead the charge of landing a man on the moon by ...

Editor's note: It's been 60 years since John Glenn's mission aboard the Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962. We're republishing this story on its impact, originally published in 2012, in honor of the ...