An historic wind tunnel at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., is helping test the prototype of a new,…
As part of the STS-128 mission’s first spacewalk, astronauts Danny Olivas and Nicole Stott (right) removed an empty ammonia tank…
Expedition 20 flight engineer Nicole Stott participates in the STS-128 mission’s first spacewalk as construction and maintenance continue on the…
Discovery spacewalker Danny Olivas at work during the STS-128 mission’s first spacewalk. During the six-hour, 35-minute spacewalk, Olivas and astronaut…
NASA’s remotely piloted Ikhana aircraft, a modified General Atomics Predator B, taxis to a run-up pad in front of the…
Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module is visible in Discovery’s payload bay,…
This map of the planet unwrapped displays the end result of careful data assimilation and image construction from NASA researchers.
Billows of smoke and steam rise above Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida alongside space shuttle…
Viewed from the Banana River Viewing Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery arcs through a…
Lightning over the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A competes with the xenon lights on the pad illuminating space shuttle…