Zanzibar. Beneath the rusting sheet-metal structures in Tunguu and the now-farmed fields of Chwaka lies a forgotten but charged chapter in global space history—one that ended not with technological ...

On April 8, 1964, NASA launched the first uncrewed test flight of the new Gemini spacecraft. This was the very first mission of Project Gemini, which would later send crews of two into orbit.

In July 1964, Ranger 7 returned the first close-up pictures of the Moon. This NASA film shows the sequence of frames taken in the 17 minutes before impact on July 31. (Video: NASA) The Long ...

NASA had undertaken a quixotic effort to get moon rocks without actually going to the moon. Under 1964’s Project Moon Harvest, farmers and schoolchildren in six counties across western Iowa were ...