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Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis

This is one of a series of photos showing Aurora Borealis as photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew…

Aurora Borealis Over the Midwest
Aurora Borealis Over the Midwest

Aurora Borealis steals the scene in this nighttime photograph shot from the International Space Station as the orbital outpost flew…

M8.7 Close-Up
M8.7 Close-Up

This closeup still of the January 22, 2012, M8.7 class solar flare was taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)…

Next-Generation Space Flight
Next-Generation Space Flight

The Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), or Orion, being assembled and tested at Lockheed Martin’s Vertical Testing Facility in Colorado. Drawing…

NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck Visits Wallops
NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck Visits Wallops

NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck, left, and Robin Heard, Manager of Antares Upper Stage Ground Operations, Orbital Sciences Corp., view…

Opportunity’s Eighth Anniversary View From ‘Greeley Haven’ (False Color)
Opportunity’s Eighth Anniversary View From ‘Greeley Haven’ (False Color)

This mosaic of images taken in mid-January 2012 shows the windswept vista northward (left) to northeastward (right) from the location…

Past Night
Past Night

Saturn’s moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this Cassini image captured…

Construction Begins on Atlantis’ Permanent Home
Construction Begins on Atlantis’ Permanent Home

With space shuttle Atlantis’ 25-year spaceflight career now in the history books, its next mission – to inform and inspire…

Closest Dione Flyby
Closest Dione Flyby

Flying past Saturn’s moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet’s…

Mercury Mission Control, Flight Control Area
Mercury Mission Control, Flight Control Area

During Project Mercury, the front wall of the Flight Control Area featured a large world map display with the path…