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Leak Test
Leak Test

The SOFIA aircraft is bathed by water from Air Force Plant 42 fire department trucks, outside its hangar at Dryden’s…

Voyagers in the Heliosheath
Voyagers in the Heliosheath

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft exploring a turbulent region of space known as the heliosheath, the outer…

Nature’s Drilling Exposes Deeply Buried Minerals
Nature’s Drilling Exposes Deeply Buried Minerals

This image shows the context for orbital observations of exposed rocks that had been buried an estimated 5 kilometers (3…

Jupiter Spacecraft Nearing Completion
Jupiter Spacecraft Nearing Completion

NASA’s fully assembled Juno spacecraft is currently undergoing testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems near Denver. Technicians are inspecting some…

Completed Hydro Impact Basin
Completed Hydro Impact Basin

The Hydro Impact Basin is NASA Langley’s newest facility. It will be used to qualify future space vehicles for water…

SOFIA
SOFIA

Air Force Plant 42 firemen create a small rainbow as they shower the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP during…

Alaska Aurora from Geomagnetic Storm
Alaska Aurora from Geomagnetic Storm

As an increasingly intense geomagnetic storm rages in the North, a NASA space physicist snapped this picture while attending a…

Out the Door
Out the Door

S133-E-007200 (28 Feb. 2011) — Partially inside, partially outside the Quest airlock on the International Space Station, astronaut Alvin Drew…

Liftoff! Curiosity Bound for Mars
Liftoff! Curiosity Bound for Mars

With NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft sealed inside its payload fairing, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rides…