The largest piece of structural test hardware for America’s new deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, was loaded into…
Components of the Neutron Spectrometer System undergo testing on the vibration table.
The Near-Infrared Volatiles Spectrometer System, or NIRVSS, looks at light emitted or absorbed by materials to help identify their composition.
This week in 1968, the Apollo 8 spacecraft became the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon.
These three radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 were obtained on Dec. 15-17.
Fifty years ago on Dec. 21, 1968, Apollo 8 launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center at…
Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA rests in a chair after landing in the Soyuz MS-09 capsule in a remote area near…
Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) rests in a chair after landing in the Soyuz MS-09 capsule in a…
Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos rests in a chair after landing in the Soyuz MS-09 capsule in a remote area near…
Expedition 57 crew members sit in chairs outside the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft after they landed in a remote area near…
