On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-31 mission, with crew:…
Release of a BARREL balloon. The launch crew can be seen on the right holding the payload as the top…
Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has both hands on controls during activities involving…
Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) carefully monitors activities of the approach, rendezvous and…
Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA points through a window toward the main topic of the day during…
Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) takes pictures of the approaching SpaceX Dragon.
This photo of volcanoes in Guatemala was taken from NASA’s C-20A aircraft during a four-week Earth science radar imaging mission…
Long before the term “citizen science” was coined, astronomy has benefited from countless men and women who study the sky…
During the 1990s two SR-71 Blackbird aircraft were used by NASA as testbeds for high-speed and high-altitude aeronautical research at…
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden poses for a quick selfie with students who attended the NASA sponsored Earth Day event April…
