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Booster Retrieval Equipment Maintained in Hangar S
Booster Retrieval Equipment Maintained in Hangar S

Much of the Hangar S operational areas were used to maintain equipment associated with the retrieval of the shuttle’s solid…

Into the Payload Fairing
Into the Payload Fairing

At Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the second half of the clamshell-shaped Delta…

Daybreak at Gale Crater
Daybreak at Gale Crater

This computer-generated images depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gale Crater,…

Kepler Planet Size & Temperature
Kepler Planet Size & Temperature

Kepler Planet Size & Temperature

Into the Payload Fairing
Into the Payload Fairing

At Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the second half of the clamshell-shaped Delta…

Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene

High above the Earth from aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Ron Garan snapped this image of Hurricane Irene as…

Ophir Chasma
Ophir Chasma

During its examination of Mars, the Viking 1 spacecraft returned images of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon system 5,000 km,…

‘Tisdale 2’ Rock, Next Stop for Opportunity
‘Tisdale 2’ Rock, Next Stop for Opportunity

The flat-topped rock just below the center of this raw image from the rover Opportunity’s panoramic camera was chosen by…

CME’s Path From Sun to Earth
CME’s Path From Sun to Earth

STEREO spacecraft and new data processing techniques have succeeded in tracking space weather events from their origin in the Sun’s…