Our ability to fly at supersonic speeds over land in civil aircraft depends on our ability to reduce the level…
President Barack Obama looks at a photo presented to him while meeting with the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour…
In the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Atlas payload fairing enclosing the Juno spacecraft…
As dawn breaks at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41, a crane is lowered over the nose…
A set of three craters, nicknamed “Snowman,” are seen in this image of the northern hemisphere of Vesta. This image…
As dawn breaks at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41, a crane is lowered over the nose…
This oblique view of the lower mound in Gale Crater shows layers of rock that preserve a record of environments…
The Space Shuttle Challenger, atop a mobile launch platform, slowly moves through the Florida fog to Launch Pad 39A in…
A new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981, when the first shuttle mission soared into orbit from…
These jets, known as spicules, were captured in an SDO image on April 25, 2010. Combined with the energy from…