JSC2013-E-028655 (6 May 2013) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 36/37 backup crew member…
The LAGEOS I, Laser Geodynamics Satellite, was launched on May 4,1976 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The two-foot diameter,…
These images of Earth were reconstructed from photos taken by three smartphones in orbit, or “PhoneSats.” The trio of PhoneSats…
A model of NASA’s Orion spacecraft is poised to be dropped from a C-17 airplane 25,000 feet above the Arizona…
To test the Orion parachute system, engineers rigged one of the test capsule’s three main parachutes – the middle parachute…
A model of NASA’s Orion spacecraft is loaded into the C-17 airplane that then dropped it from an altitude of…
A model of NASA’s Orion spacecraft glides to a successful touchdown during a test of its parachute system on Wednesday,…
NASA astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou, a senior scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been selected for…
Like a proud peacock displaying its tail, Enceladus shows off its beautiful plume to the Cassini spacecraft’s cameras. Enceladus (313…
