NASA’s current logo dates back to 1959. It’s sort of a mess—a wonderful, retro-nostalgic mess—that’s hard to reproduce and doesn’t scale well. In fact, NASA even changed to a different logo that ...

There are only 45 active NASA astronauts in the world today — and fewer than 300 former ones since the organization's inception in 1958. But it's a highly sought-after job. In 2016, a whopping 18,300 ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, Bill Fecych (seated) and Don Johnson work in the reactor control room during its operating days in 1959. After an ad hoc committee study in 1977, ...