Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin shakes hands with NASA’s Gemini 4 astronauts, Edward H. White II and James A. McDivitt, at…
The Soyuz TMA-21 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, carrying Expedition 27 Soyuz Commander…
As a tribute to NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, artist Brian Basset created this commemorative drawing depicting his characters, Red and…
Expedition 27 crew members from top, Russian Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko, NASA Flight Engineer Ron Garan, and Soyuz Commander Alexander…
The Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft is seen on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Saturday, April 2, 2011.…
Inside the Plasma Spray-Physical Vapor Deposition, or PS-PVD, ceramic powder is introduced into the plasma flame, which vaporizes it and…
The Tien Shan mountain range is one of the largest continuous mountain ranges in the world, extending approximately 1,550 miles…
This historic first orbital image of Mercury was acquired 37 years to the day after Mariner 10’s historic first flyby…
Bright rays, consisting of impact ejecta and secondary craters, spread across this NAC image and radiate from Debussy crater, located…
This WAC image showing a never-before-imaged area of Mercury’s surface was taken from an altitude of 450 km (280 miles)…