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On This Day in Space! Jan. 23, 1942: NASA's Glenn Research Center is founded Space 1/23/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space An aerial view of NASA's Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Cleveland, Ohio. Happy birthday, Glenn Research Center!  On January 23, 1942, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) founded the Aircraft Engine Laboratory, which was renamed Lewis Research Center after NASA was established in 1958.  It was renamed again in 1999 as the Glenn Research Center. The facility was named after John Glenn, an astronaut who became the firs...

On January 16, 1969, two crewed spacecraft docked in orbit for the first time. See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!

On Jan. 11, 1787, the English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered two moons at Uranus! See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!

On This Day in Space! Dec. 23, 1672: Giovanni Cassini discovers Saturn's moon Rhea Space 23/12/2020 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space Saturn's moons Rhea and Janus tango on opposite sides of the planet's famous ring system in this new color-enhanced image from NASA's Cassini orbiter. Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon, is visible in the foreground, while the smaller moon Janus is pictured in the distance across the rings. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill recently processed this 10-year-old view of Saturn and two of its moons using calibrated red, green and blue filtered i...

On This Day in Space! Dec. 20, 1904: Mount Wilson Observatory founded Space 20/12/2020 © Provided by Space mount wilson observatory bobcat fire On Dec. 20, 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory was founded. This astronomical observatory was the brainchild of the solar astronomer George Ellery Hale. He was a professor at the University of Chicago who was famous for discovering magnetic fields in sunspots.  In 1889, two Harvard astronomers started testing out the observing conditions at Mount Wilson, but rain and snow damaged many of their instruments — not to mention the clouds that block...