The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research in aeronautics and spa
Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington, D.C.
A US Air Force Bell X-1 test flight
Launch of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's Explorer 1, America's first satellite
Launch of Friendship 7, NASA's first crewed orbital flight, February 20, 1962
The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the ten field centers of NASA. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research,
KSC shown in white; Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in green
A Saturn V rocket carrying Apollo 15 rolls out to Pad 39A in 1971 on Mobile Launch Platform 1.