
Astronauts Karen Nyberg, Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano pose for a photo in the Destiny laboratory.

Luca Parmitano works with free-flying satellites known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES.

In 2013, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility added a C-130 Hercules to its fleet of aircraft

The support gantry at Pad 0B of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., was…

The doors of the gantry support structure are opened to reveal the Minotaur V rocket on Pad 0B at the…

This artist’s concept shows the general locations of NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft. Voyager 1 (top) has sailed beyond our solar…

This artist’s concept shows the outer layers of our solar bubble, or heliosphere, and nearby interstellar space. NASA’s Voyager 1…

The Japanese HTV-4 unmanned cargo spacecraft is backdropped against a land mass on Earth just prior to its release from…

The Japanese HTV-4 unmanned cargo spacecraft is backdropped against a land mass on Earth just prior to its release from…

The Japanese HTV-4 unmanned cargo spacecraft is backdropped against countries in northern Africa following its unberthing from the orbital outpost.