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Dress Rehearsal
Dress Rehearsal

Aug. 31, 2012 — The Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket is in position for a wet dress…

Tracking the Future
Tracking the Future

Aug. 31, 2012 — Just prior to the wet dress rehearsal for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the frameworks of…

Neil Armstrong Memorial
Neil Armstrong Memorial

Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell, left, former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, Sen. John Glenn, third from left, and NASA Administrator…

Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise
Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise

Clad in full thermal protection suits, Air Force fire-rescue crews strap a stand-in “astronaut” into a litter during a Space…

Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise
Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise

While fire-rescue personnel prepare evacuation litters, two stand-in “astronauts” prepare to use an exit slide from a Shuttle mockup during…

Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise
Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise

A long string of specialized NASA vehicles convoys down a taxiway at Edwards Air Force Base to begin a Space…

Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise
Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise

Clad in thermal protection suits, fire/rescue crew aid a volunteer “Injured astronaut” to a head-first ride down the exit slide…

Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise
Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise

Air Force rescue team members load the volunteer “injured astronaut” on a stretcher into a Blackhawk helicopter for evacuation to…

Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise
Shuttle Rescue Training Exercise

Complete with makeup to simulate facial injuries, a volunteer “astronaut” is tended to by aeromedical rescue staff after evacuation from…

Orbiter View of Curiosity From Nearly Straight Overhead
Orbiter View of Curiosity From Nearly Straight Overhead

Details such as the shadow of the mast on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity appear in an image taken Aug. 17,…