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Early-Stage SLS Booster Separation
Early-Stage SLS Booster Separation

Artist concept of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters firing their separation rockets and pushing away from the…

NASA Engineers Prepare Game Changing Cryotank for Testing
NASA Engineers Prepare Game Changing Cryotank for Testing

NASA and Boeing engineers are inspecting and preparing one of the largest composite rocket propellant tanks ever manufactured for testing.

Going to Extremes
Going to Extremes

NASA Glenn’s Extreme Environments Rig (GEER) is designed to put Venus bound spacecraft through tests that include 1,000 degree Fahrenheit…

Steve Swanson Participates in Body Mass Measurement
Steve Swanson Participates in Body Mass Measurement

NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, Expedition 39 flight engineer, participates in body mass measurement/Russian biomedical routine assessments.

Southwestern Australia Pre-Winter Storm
Southwestern Australia Pre-Winter Storm

One of the Expedition 39 crew members photographed this pre-winter storm located just off the coast of southwestern Australia.

BASS-II Inflight Maintenance
BASS-II Inflight Maintenance

Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio performs inflight maintenance on an experiment called Burning and Suppression of Solids (BASS)-II.

Looking Down on Lakes
Looking Down on Lakes

The Cassini spacecraft peers down through layers of haze to glimpse the lakes of Titan’s northern regions.Titan (3,200 miles, or…

Diagram of Umbra and Penumbra
Diagram of Umbra and Penumbra

During an eclipse, two shadows are cast. The first is called the umbra (UM bruh). This shadow gets smaller as…

Moon’s Shadow on Earth During Solar Eclipse
Moon’s Shadow on Earth During Solar Eclipse

During a solar eclipse, the moon casts a large shadow onto Earth’s surface. Image Credit: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)