In the Baikonur Cosmodrome Museum in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (foreground), Expedition 39 flight engineer and Expedition 40 commander,…
The Space Shuttle Atlantis carried the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) module in its cargo bay in March…
John H. Glenn, one of the Mercury Seven Astronauts, runs through a training exercise in the Mercury Procedures Trainer simulator…
Expedition 39/40 rehearse rendezvous procedures on a laptop simulator.
Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA reviews rendezvous procedures with a training instructor.
The first generation X-1 aircraft changed aviation history in numerous ways, and not simply because they were the first aircraft…
Technicians prepare the 18-foot-diameter (5.5-meter) tank during manufacturing at the Boeing Developmental Center in Tukwila, Wash.
A robot heats advanced composite materials to form the skin of a composite tank designed to hold super cold propellants.
This hardy star within a supernova remnant is located in a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small companion…
One of the largest composite rocket propellant tanks ever manufactured is prepared for transport on NASA’s Super Guppy airplane.
