Asteroids can differ in the degree of porosity, or the amount of empty space that makes up their structures. At…
The instrument panel illuminates the cockpit of NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 during a night mission over the eastern U.S. during the…
A storm system over North Carolina was the focus of a May 2014 flight by NASA’s ER-2 during the Integrated…
Arriving aboard space shuttle Discovery, the STS-92 crew installed the Z1-Truss. Inside the Z1 are four Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs)…
The STS-106 crew on Space Shuttle Atlantis delivered supplies and performed maintenance on the International Space Station.
The International Space Station’s first resident crew, Expedition One, launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on October 30, 2000, on a…
NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this oblique view of the area surrounding Hadley Base, the landing site of Apollo 15.
On June 18, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger launched on the STS-7 mission crewed by the first flight American female…
The Zvezda Service Module was launched atop a Russian Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on July 12, 2000. The…
