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Flying by the “Death Star” Moon
Flying by the “Death Star” Moon

In this view captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on its closest-ever flyby of Saturn’s moon Mimas, large Herschel Crater dominates…

NASA’s First Class of Female Astronauts
NASA’s First Class of Female Astronauts

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher,…

STS-31 Crew at Prelaunch News Briefing
STS-31 Crew at Prelaunch News Briefing

The STS-31 (Discovery) crew with models of the Hubble Space Telescope and space shuttle at a news briefing 30 days…

Preparing Discovery for Flight
Preparing Discovery for Flight

A specialized transporter brought the payload canister to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for the STS-131 mission. The canister, which…

Learning Can Be a ‘Drag’
Learning Can Be a ‘Drag’

When Ajay Ramesh and Prithvi Aiyaswamy, two seventh graders from Chaboya Middle School, San Jose, Calif., visited the Fluid Mechanics…

Skyray Preparations
Skyray Preparations

NASA engineer Gary Cosentino communicates with fellow X-48B flight team personnel in preparation for another flight.

X-48B Skyray Takeoff
X-48B Skyray Takeoff

A joint NASA/Boeing team completed the first phase of flight tests on the unique X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft at…

Dryden’s T-34 Chases the X-48B
Dryden’s T-34 Chases the X-48B

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center’s T-34 support aircraft provided safety chase for the joint NASA/Boeing X-48B.

Kepler field of view for each season
Kepler field of view for each season

Kepler field of view for each season

Mars’ Concepcion Crater
Mars’ Concepcion Crater

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took this image in preparation for the first autonomous selection of an observation target by…