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Cloud Bands Over the Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania
Cloud Bands Over the Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania

This photograph of cloud bands over southern Mauritania was taken from the International Space Station with an oblique angle such…

Manufacturing the Saturn V Instrument Unit
Manufacturing the Saturn V Instrument Unit

The Saturn V instrument unit, the “brains” of the Saturn V launch vehicle, was manufactured in the east high bay…

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Oct. 5, 2013
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Oct. 5, 2013

This image shows the most recent observations of the 2-mile-wide (4-kilometer-wide) comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which is the upcoming target of the…

X-36
X-36

The NASA/Boeing X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft successfully completed a 31-flight research program at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center,…

U.S. Instruments Aboard Rosetta
U.S. Instruments Aboard Rosetta

Three of NASA’s contributions to the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission are pictured here. An ultraviolet spectrometer called Alice (top…

January 2014 – Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 12 (TDRS-12) Launched
January 2014 – Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 12 (TDRS-12) Launched

TDRS-12, the second of the third generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) is launched onboard an Atlas V rocket…

Saturn V Instrument Unit Final Assembly
Saturn V Instrument Unit Final Assembly

In January 1967, the Saturn V instrument unit, the “brains” that controlled the giant launch vehicle was hoisted during the…

U.S. President John F. Kennedy Pays Tribute to Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy Pays Tribute to Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.

On Feb. 23, 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy pays tribute to astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. for his February…

In Future Aircraft Designs We “Truss”
In Future Aircraft Designs We “Truss”

Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., recently installed this 15-percent scale model based on a possible future…

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Launch Lights Up the Night Sky
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Launch Lights Up the Night Sky

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lights up the night sky over Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral…