
As the International Space Station passed over the Bering Sea on Earth Day, one of the Expedition 39 crew members…

During the 1990s two SR-71 Blackbird aircraft were used by NASA as testbeds for high-speed and high-altitude aeronautical research at…

Three STS-31 crew members look at the Hubble Space Telescope through overhead windows on space shuttle Discovery, April 25, 1990.…

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has driven within robotic-arm’s reach of the sandstone slab at the center of this view from…

Mercury astronaut John Glenn stays fit by running on the beach in Cape Canaveral, Florida.Credit: NASA

On this view of the Curiosity rover mission’s waypoint called “the Kimberley,” the red dot indicates the location of a…

NASA’s Administrator, Charles Bolden (left), President/CEO of Lockheed Martin, Marillyn Hewson (right), and astronaut Rex Walheim (back row) pose for…

During the 1990s two SR-71 Blackbird aircraft were used by NASA as testbeds for high-speed and high-altitude aeronautical research at…

On space shuttle Discovery’s middeck, the STS-31 crew poses for a traditional in-flight portrait on April 29, 1990. Astronaut Loren…

Engineers prepare to remove the CERES instrument from the Radiometric Calibration Chamber following the completion of thermal vacuum testing at…