Sally Ride is best known as the first American woman in space. Following her death on July 23, 2012 at the age of 61, she also is being remembered as a
travel into space, Sally was a national hero and a powerful role model,” President Barack
“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed … anything that could be counted,
Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama
Photos from Mercury Seven astronaut John Glenn’s NASA career, including his historic orbital flight on February 20, 1962.
President Barack Obama presents former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut
President Barack Obama chats with Apollo 11 astronauts, from left, Buzz Aldrin, Michael
Charles F. Bolden Oral History Interviews January 6, 2004 January 15, 2004 September 24, 2014 March 6, 2015 March 18, 2016
Charles Frank Bolden, Jr., (USMC-Ret.) was nominated by President Barack Obama and
Endeavour delivered a third connecting module – the Tranquility node – to the station and a seven-windowed cupola to be used as a control room for robotics. The mission featured three spacewalks. STS-130 was the 32nd shuttle mission to the station.
President Barack Obama, accompanied at the White House by several middle school students
Through innovative partnerships with commercial rocket and spacecraft developers, NASA is making great strides to advance America’s next human space transportation systems.
In 2010, President Barack Obama set the agency on a course to provide new transportation
STS-119 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station which was flown by space shuttle Discovery during March 2009. It delivered and assembled the fourth starboard Integrated Truss Segment, and the fourth set of solar arrays and batteries to the station.
President Barack Obama to the shuttle and station crew members gathered in the Harmony
Biography by Margot Lee Shetterly
97, Johnson added another extraordinary achievement to her long list: President Barack
A simple turn of phrase was all it took for U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of Katherine Johnson’s home state of West Virginia to capture the feeling in
In 2015, President Barack Obama presented Katherine Johnson with the Presidential
