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Stargazer Aircraft Carrying IRIS Takes Off
Stargazer Aircraft Carrying IRIS Takes Off

The Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft takes off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:30 p.m. EDT on June…

Transitional Regions at the Heliosphere’s Outer Limits
Transitional Regions at the Heliosphere’s Outer Limits

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft exploring a region called the “depletion region” or “magnetic highway” at the…

Prepping for Tow Test on the Taxiway
Prepping for Tow Test on the Taxiway

Sierra Nevada Corporation engineers and technicians prepare the firm’s Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle for tow tests on a taxiway…

Triumph After Splashdown of Apollo 11
Triumph After Splashdown of Apollo 11

In the Mission Operations Control Room of the Mission Control Center, Building 30, Manned Spacecraft Center, flight controllers applaud the…

First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered
First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered

First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered

City Lights of Texas
City Lights of Texas

One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, some 240 miles above Earth, used a 50mm…

Nighttime Image of Texas Cities
Nighttime Image of Texas Cities

One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, some 240 miles above Earth, used a 50mm…

IRIS Launch Set for Thursday
IRIS Launch Set for Thursday

Technicians and engineers at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California mate the Pegasus XL rocket with the Interface Region Imaging…

Apollo 11 Astronauts Relax Following Successful Mission
Apollo 11 Astronauts Relax Following Successful Mission

Within the Mobile Quarantine Facility, Apollo 11 astronauts (left to right) Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Neil A.…

Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin Participates in Spacewalk
Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin Participates in Spacewalk

Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on…