The Apollo program was the first to bring humans to the moon. Even though the program began in the early 1960s until 1972, with 12 astronauts walking the moon's surface during this time frame, there ...

John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight took less than five hours. But the lessons NASA learned that day continue to propel the agency forward today. The United States was falling behind in the space race in ...

JFK understood the value of space flight for foreign relations -- something Richard Nixon took even further, with Operation Moonglow helping to end the Vietnam War. NY Post photo composite In 1962, ...

President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 vision of placing a man on the moon within the span of a decade would require not just a powerful spacecraft, but a powerful and efficiently sized guidance computer ...

Silicon Valley, its visionaries like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and the entire tech revolution may not have happened without the Cold War space race. President John F. Kennedy’s iconic 1962 speech, ...

Editor's note: It's been 60 years since John Glenn's mission aboard the Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962. We're republishing this story on its impact, originally published in 2012, in honor of the ...