IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is one of several replicas of ...

Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space on 31 January 1958. A quick response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik 1, Explorer 1’s ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This artifact is one of several ...

The launch of the Explorer 1 satellite, 50 years ago tomorrow, showed the unlimited potential of the United States to succeed on the highest of technological levels, AIA President and CEO Marion ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama -- Since America's beginning, the U.S. Army led the nation in exploration of the continent, and this year it celebrates the 60th anniversary of leading the nation in the ...

In 1950, a group of scientists proposed the International Geophysical Year (IGY), a sort of science Olympics in which nations of the world would embark on ambitious experiments and share results ...