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F-101A Voodoo
F-101A Voodoo

The F-101A was a single-seat fighter powered by two Pratt and Whitney engines. A triangular-shaped inlet with elliptical lips was…

Stately Saturn
Stately Saturn

Saturn, stately and resplendent in this natural color view, dwarfs its icy moon Rhea. Rhea (949 miles in diameter) orbits…

Magellan Mission to Venus
Magellan Mission to Venus

Deployed on the STS-30 mission of space shuttle Atlantis in 1989, the Magellan mission to Venus was the first planetary…

Habitable Zones of Different Stars
Habitable Zones of Different Stars

Habitable Zones of Different Stars

Frogbot
Frogbot

Frogbot is a prototype of a small hopping robot that moves by rolls and hops.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

MRO blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2005, on a search for evidence that water persisted on the surface of…

K10 Red Planetary Rover
K10 Red Planetary Rover

The K10 planetary rover is a prototype mobile robot. It can travel on bumpy areas about as fast as a…

Phoenix Robotic Arm
Phoenix Robotic Arm

Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars.

Galileo Mission – Artist’s Concept
Galileo Mission – Artist’s Concept

The Galileo spacecraft was launched in 1989 by the space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.

Mariner
Mariner

During the 1960s and 70s, the Mariner space probes visited and provided vital information about Mars, Venus and Mercury.