
Excellent view of the Apollo 9 Lunar Module, “Spider,” in a lunar landing configuration, as photographed from the Command and…

A nearby star stands out in red in this image from the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey. The star, called…

March 7, 2014 — The Advanced Plant Experiment, or APEX, experiment as it is being prepared by John Carver, a…

March 7, 2014 — In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, QinetiQ North America…

March 7, 2014 — Terry Tullis, a QinetiQ North America mechanical engineer, prepares the Biological Research In Canisters, or BRIC,…

Guenter Wendt, the original pad leader for NASA’s manned space program, coaxes a smile out of astronaut John Glenn after…

South America and portions of North America and Africa are shown in this false-color image from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, taken…

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA (left), Alexander…