The NASA Archives. 40th Ed.

The NASA Archives. 40th Ed.

Throughout NASA’s 60-year history, images have played a central role, gathershundreds of historic photographs and rare concept renderings, scanned and remastered using the latest technology. On October 1, 1958, the world’s first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik a year earlier. The NASA Archives is more than just a fascinating pictorial history of the U.S. space program. It is also a profound meditation on why we choose to explore space and how we will carry on this grandest of all adventures in the years to come.