The S-1C booster for the Apollo 11 Saturn V waits inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
An overhead crane lifts the Saturn V first stage for the Apollo 11 mission from the transfer aisle floor in…
Carrying the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket and mobile launcher, the crawler inches out of the Vehicle Assembly Building on…
An aurora on March 8, 2012 shimmering over snow-covered mountains in Faskrudsfjordur, Iceland. This aurora resulted from the coronal mass…
Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Hubble’s…
This image is from the March 6, 2012 X5.4 flare, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 171…
As the Apollo 11 astronauts rehearse their lunar landing mission in simulators, they pause in front of a lunar module…
This closeup view shows mated Viking lander (top) and orbiter in Kennedy Space Center’s Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility.
Artist’s concept of NuSTAR on orbit. NuSTAR has a 10-m (30′) mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics…
This image, taken on March 6, 1969, shows the Apollo 9 Command and Service Modules docked with the Lunar Module.…