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F/A-18 Takes Off on IRAC Project Flight
F/A-18 Takes Off on IRAC Project Flight

NASA Dryden’s F/A-18 #853 research aircraft that was the centerpiece of the Active Aeroelastic Wing (AAW) project several years ago…

Flight Path for Global Hawk GloPac Mission
Flight Path for Global Hawk GloPac Mission

The initial flight path of NASA’s Global Hawk on its first data-collection flight in the Global Hawk Pacific (GloPac) environmental…

Outbound Flight Path for GloPac Mission
Outbound Flight Path for GloPac Mission

The outbound flight path of NASA’s Global Hawk was marked in red shortly after it turned around over the North…

Flying Across the Moon
Flying Across the Moon

The International Space Station flew across the face of the moon over NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida approximately 15…

The Eagle Nebula
The Eagle Nebula

Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas…

Eskimo Nebula
Eskimo Nebula

This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed…

Making Upgrades
Making Upgrades

Astronaut F. Story Musgrave, anchored on the end of the Remote Manipulator System arm, prepares to be elevated to the…

Discovery Lifts off
Discovery Lifts off

An exhaust cloud billowed around Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as space shuttle Discovery lifted…

3-2-1 Lift Off
3-2-1 Lift Off

Space shuttle Discovery’s engines ignited at 6:21 a.m. EDT Monday, April 5, for liftoff of the STS-131 mission from Launch…

STS-132 to Carry Research Module
STS-132 to Carry Research Module

The Russian-built Mini-Research Module-1 is prepared for installation in the payload canister before transport to Launch Pad 39A.