Famed industrial designer, Raymond Loewy, is probably best known for his cool design of the Pennsylvania S-1 Locomotive. He also did some famous logo designs, including those for Exxon and Shell oil companies. But he loved the space program. And Loewy did interior design for the first American space station, Skylab. Copyright prevents me from [...]

The USSR was notably silent about its plans for space missions. They typically announced their missions afterwords—and boasted about their accomplishments, often achieving “firsts.” They had the first satellite, first man in space, first space walk, first space station, etc. The U.S. announced plans and then carried them out—at great risk—in sight of the whole [...]

The space program—and perhaps the country as a whole—has had a longstanding love for the Peanuts comic strip. And the cartoonist, Charles Schulz, certainly loved being involved with the space program. Perhaps the biggest connection between the Peanuts gang and the space program came with Apollo 10. The command module was named Charlie Brown, and [...]