15 Fascinating Photos From History That Have An Interesting Story

5. Miss NASA 1971 posing on the Apollo 8 capsule in Houston, Texas, US in 1971. Apparently NASA held a beauty pageant for many years from the 1950s until the late 1970s to try and get more people interested in the program. They originally had other titles such as Miss Guided Missile and Miss Jet Propulsion before becoming just Miss NASA in the late 1960s.