The STS-1 vehicle – consisting of America’s first reusable spaceship, space shuttle Columbia, the external propellant tank and twin solid…
Astronauts for the first space shuttle mission, Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen, take a break from their intensive…
An active region on the sun, seen here as the bright spot in the upper right quadrant, has been moving…
Neil A. Armstrong, commander for the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission, practices for the historic event in a lunar module simulator…
The Apollo 11 crew performs a walk-through egress test. The hands-on test was in preparation for the first manned lunar…
Carrying the Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket and mobile launcher, the crawler inches its way along the three-and-a-half-mile journey to…
The Apollo 11 Saturn V lifts off with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. at…
The first Titan-Centaur lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station at 9:48 a.m. EDT on…
NASA Chief Technology Officer Mason Peck is briefed on new space technologies, ranging from software for human biology modeling on…
Behind the Flight Control area in Mercury Mission Control was a glass-enclosed viewing section that consisted of two levels, with…
