NASA’s Global Hawk # 871 cruises over low cloud layers during its first checkout flight since being transferred to NASA…
This composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A new long observation…
After 27 years of service, TDRS-1 was deactivated and super synched (sent into a higher orbit). The first generation of…
The Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) contract was awarded. The ground segment of the Space Network needed to be…
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an adult osprey guards its young in a nest built on a platform…
Thilo Kranz, a staff member at DLR, the German Space Agency, took this image of the transit of the International…
With the world tracking map on the wall in front of him, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard works at his console…
From left, astronauts John Glenn and Donald K. Slayton, Walter C. Williams, associate director for Project Mercury operations, and Christopher…
On Dec. 26, 1963, ownership of the facility officially was transferred from the U.S. Air Force to NASA. Now called…
For the Gemini Program, the Flight Control Area’s world map display was updated to reflect new tracking stations, and the…