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871 Cruises Over Low Cloud Layers
871 Cruises Over Low Cloud Layers

NASA’s Global Hawk # 871 cruises over low cloud layers during its first checkout flight since being transferred to NASA…

Stellar Shrapnel
Stellar Shrapnel

This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A new long observation…

June 2010 – Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 1 (TDRS-1) Retired
June 2010 – Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 1 (TDRS-1) Retired

After 27 years of service, TDRS-1 was deactivated and super synched (sent into a higher orbit). The first generation of…

June 2010 – Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) Contract Awarded
June 2010 – Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) Contract Awarded

The Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) contract was awarded. The ground segment of the Space Network needed to be…

On Guard
On Guard

At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an adult osprey guards its young in a nest built on a platform…

ISS Transits the Sun
ISS Transits the Sun

Thilo Kranz, a staff member at DLR, the German Space Agency, took this image of the transit of the International…

Mercury Mission Control, Flight Control Area
Mercury Mission Control, Flight Control Area

With the world tracking map on the wall in front of him, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard works at his console…

Mercury Mission Control, Flight Control Area
Mercury Mission Control, Flight Control Area

From left, astronauts John Glenn and Donald K. Slayton, Walter C. Williams, associate director for Project Mercury operations, and Christopher…

Kennedy Space Center – The Gemini Years
Kennedy Space Center – The Gemini Years

On Dec. 26, 1963, ownership of the facility officially was transferred from the U.S. Air Force to NASA. Now called…

Mission Control Center, Gemini Program
Mission Control Center, Gemini Program

For the Gemini Program, the Flight Control Area’s world map display was updated to reflect new tracking stations, and the…