
At the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos lays flowers in a tribute to…

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 39/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov (front, center) signs a…

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA (front, left)…

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 39/40 backup Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos (front,…

Striking a pose in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral at Red Square in Moscow, Expedition 39/40 crewmembers Steve Swanson of…

A photograph from a live television transmission from Apollo 9. This view shows the interior of the Lunar Module “Spider”…

The Bell X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft designed to investigate the structural effects of aerodynamic heating as well…

Mars’ northern-most sand dunes are beginning to emerge from their winter cover of seasonal carbon dioxide (dry) ice. Dark, bare…

NASA’s THEMIS mission observed how dense particles normally near Earth in a layer of the uppermost atmosphere called the plasmasphere…

An illustration of Earth’s magnetic field showing the location of the plasmasphere.