Developed together, the twin Mariner 1 and 2 spacecraft were based on the Ranger lunar probe and planned for a joint mission ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

A midafternoon with fair skies turned into horror for a Midwest City neighborhood on Aug. 25, 1961, when a fully fueled jet fighter crashed and exploded on the doorsteps of several homes. The pilot of ...

NORWOOD - For The Skating Club of Boston, which lost six members of its community Wednesday night in the American Airlines plane crash near Washington, D.C., the tragedy is all too familiar.

Country music was changing in a big way in the 1960s, and these three songs from 1961 played an important part.

On Nov. 29, 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice before returning. Enos became the first chimpanzee to orbit the Earth ...

Editor's note: This archival article was first published Feb. 26, 2021. FARGO — It’s almost unimaginable in the world of sports — a team of athletes carrying the hopes and dreams of an entire nation ...

ROGERSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A forgotten roll of 8-millimeter film was recently found, containing never-before-seen footage of the 1961 wall collapse at Wheeler Lock. This rediscovered film, captured by ...