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A Tiny Planet
A Tiny Planet

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a…

Inspecting Friendship 7
Inspecting Friendship 7

Astronaut John Glenn inspects artwork that will be painted on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft, which he nicknamed Friendship…

Headed for Japan
Headed for Japan

The shipping containers for the HTV-4 payloads are loaded for transport to Chicago.

Professor Checks Out Data Acquisition System Prior to Flight
Professor Checks Out Data Acquisition System Prior to Flight

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology professor Andrei Zagrai checks out the prototype data acquisition system during bench testing…

Student Conducts Bench Testing of Data Acquisition System
Student Conducts Bench Testing of Data Acquisition System

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology engineering student Jon Schlavin conducts bench testing of the prototype data acquisition system…

Technicians Check Payload for High-Altitude Balloon
Technicians Check Payload for High-Altitude Balloon

Near Space Corporation technician Mark Williamson and assistants check the prototype structural integrity data acquisition payload.

Near Space Corporation Balloons Begins its Ascent
Near Space Corporation Balloons Begins its Ascent

The NSC balloon carrying the NMT prototype data acquisition payload begins its ascent from the Madras, Ore., airport.

Earth’s Magnetosphere
Earth’s Magnetosphere

Earth is surrounded by a giant magnetic bubble, called the magnetosphere.

Dragon Prepares to Resupply Station
Dragon Prepares to Resupply Station

The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Dragon spacecraft stands inside a processing hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in…

Wing of Pegasus, Meteoroid Detection Satellite
Wing of Pegasus, Meteoroid Detection Satellite

On Feb. 16, 1965, the eighth Saturn I flight known as the SA-9, Saturn I Block II, lifted off from…