A Piper PA-30 Twin Commanche, known as NASA 808, was used at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center as a…
In the 1960s, the Saturn I first stages for the SA-4, SA-6, and SA-7 missions were assembled by the Fabrication…
On Feb. 10, 2001, the crews of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station successfully installed the U.S.…
MESSENGER mapped the composition of Mercury’s surface, took images to determine the structure of the magnetic field, determined the composition…
On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7.
This April 6, 2014, image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows…
This infographic explains a popular theory of active supermassive black holes, referred to as the unified model
QuikScat acquires all-weather, high resolution measurements of near-surface winds over global oceans using specialized microwave radar.Launch: June 1999Operating Network: Near…
Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission to orbit a periodic comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and dispatch a lander, called Philae, to…
Soyuz Commander and cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European astronaut Alexander Gerst will launch aboard the Soyuz…
