The astronauts and cosmonauts sit atop mock-ups at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. At left, the three Americans (left…
An excellent view of the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit, photographed by the Apollo astronauts. The three major components…
Spacecraft attempting to land on an unfamiliar surface need to perform a maneuver called “deep throttling” – a step that…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this full 360-degree view of…
Brigitte Berman, a junior at Southfield School in Brookline, MA, found being part of the science team on NASA’s recent…
Like an Independence Day fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is…
Taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system, this is a global color mosaic of…
Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. EDT on July 4, 2006 to begin their journey…
The Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research, or SUGAR, Volt future aircraft design comes from the research team led by The…
Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes…