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Putting a Square Peg in a Round Hole
Putting a Square Peg in a Round Hole

An interior view of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module and the “mailbox,” a hack used to turn the lunar module…

The Rich Color Variations of Pluto
The Rich Color Variations of Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015.

Smoke and Fires Pepper Papua Indonesia and New Guinea
Smoke and Fires Pepper Papua Indonesia and New Guinea

A severe El Nino year could have contributed to even more outbreaks of wildfires and agricultural fires that have gone…

Duct Tape Saves the Day!
Duct Tape Saves the Day!

Duct tape comes in handy even in space!

Evolution of a Martian
Evolution of a Martian

NASA Langley Research Center engineers and scientists are making key contributions to NASA’s Journey to Mars.

How to Repair the International Space Station With a Toothbrush
How to Repair the International Space Station With a Toothbrush

Expedition 32 flight engineer Suni Williams appears to touch the bright Sun during the mission’s third spacewalk.

Reparing Skylab
Reparing Skylab

Two seamstresses stitch together a sun-shade for the Skylab Orbital Workshop, the country’s first space station.

The Cable Cutter That Saved Skylab
The Cable Cutter That Saved Skylab

When Skylab was launched in May 1973, one of the solar arrays ripped off during launch and the other became…

The Tartarus Dorsa Mountains Rise Up Along Pluto
The Tartarus Dorsa Mountains Rise Up Along Pluto

The Tartarus Dorsa mountains, rise up along Pluto’s day-night terminator and show intricate but puzzling patterns of blue-gray ridges and…

Pluto’s Varied Terrain
Pluto’s Varied Terrain

The sharpest images to date of Pluto’s varied terrain—revealing details down to scales of 270 meters.