Technology & Innovation

The limestone oval is carved with a dark, thin rectangle on which ancient people repeatedly moved game pieces

Splashdown: the final step in the Apollo 11 mission. As the command module floated (gracefully, we are sure) in the Pacific Ocean, a team of elite Navy divers known as Frogmen swam up to help the astronauts safely and securely onto a helicopter .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Noted Navy mathematician and computer programmer Gladys Mae Brown was born to Black sharecroppers in Sutherland, Virginia, on October 27, 1930, just years after legislation in the state codified its harshest post-Civil War discrimination .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Jacobs played a key role in developing and managing the “pop pod” camera system that filmed Saturn V stage separation in flight—footage that helped ensure the safety of future Moon missions and offered early views of Earth from orbit.

The design embedded in the terrazzo floor of the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall is based on a famous illustration from the 1970s that shows the location of Earth’s solar system.

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has acquired the site’s very first video, which went live on April 23, 2005

What you need to know about NASA’s Artemis II mission to the Moon.

Such tools could help scientists track population sizes or recognize aggressive animals that have attacked humans