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Final Touches for Glenn’s Shuttle Flight
Final Touches for Glenn’s Shuttle Flight

U.S. Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. (D.-Ohio), gets help with final touches of the donning of his partial-pressure launch and…

John Glenn’s Shuttle Flight
John Glenn’s Shuttle Flight

In the launch pad’s White Room, STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., U.S. Senator from Ohio, has his flight…

The Hathaway Team
The Hathaway Team

Researchers have confirmed the existence of giant convection cells flowing slowly on the sun, lending further insight into the origin…

Giant Cells
Giant Cells

Data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals giant cells on the sun with convective…

Orion Heat Shield Transported Aboard Super Guppy Plane
Orion Heat Shield Transported Aboard Super Guppy Plane

The heat shield for NASA’s Orion spacecraft was loaded onto a Super Guppy plane in Manchester, N.H. on Dec. 4,…

A New Star Down Under
A New Star Down Under

A bright nova in the constellation of Centaurus has become visible for a few days for observers in the Southern…

YAV-8B
YAV-8B

Flight tests were conducted by NASA with the basic YAV-8B to establish reaction control bleed flow in low-speed flight to…

Brown and Glenn on Flight Deck Press Conference
Brown and Glenn on Flight Deck Press Conference

STS-95 mission Commander Curtis Brown (left) and Payload Specialist John Glenn are photographed on the aft flight deck of Discovery…

Webb’s MIRI Shield Dropping in on Dropping Temperatures
Webb’s MIRI Shield Dropping in on Dropping Temperatures

Goddard Technicians Tony Kiem (left) and George Mooney (right) guide the craned structure holding the Webb telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument or…

Station Crew Monitors Russian Cargo Craft Approach
Station Crew Monitors Russian Cargo Craft Approach

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov (foreground), Expedition 38 commander; and Sergey Ryazanskiy, flight engineer, monitor data at the manual TORU docking…