Some social media users are sharing a YouTube video that claims NASA halted ocean exploration efforts in 1978. The video features tranquil scenes of swimming sharks, fish and manta rays. A narrator ...

When you look back on the long history of crewed spaceflight, one group stands out for its radical challenge to the conventional wisdom of who could become an astronaut. NASA’s astronaut class of 1978 ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) did not abruptly end its deep-sea research activities in 1978, contrary to posts shared online suggesting the space agency found something ...

In 1978, a then-state-of-the-art spacecraft was launched by NASA and the European Space Agency and tasked to study the solar wind -- a stream of plasma and other particles released from the sun that ...

NASA found something, not looking for new discoveries, but rather data from 1978. Space exploration has a long history of collecting more data than scientists can study at once. Missions return with ...

Astronaut Anna Fisher joined NASA in 1978 and became the first mother to fly in space when she launched on her space shuttle mission. See photos from her space career here. She retired from NASA in ...