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Discovery Launch Lights Up the Night
Discovery Launch Lights Up the Night

Viewed from the Banana River Viewing Site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery arcs through a…

Lighting Up the Night Sky
Lighting Up the Night Sky

Lightning over the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A competes with the xenon lights on the pad illuminating space shuttle…

Symphony in Blue
Symphony in Blue

Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the…

Planetary Smash-Up
Planetary Smash-Up

This artist’s concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body…

Making Preparations
Making Preparations

STS-128 astronaut Nicole Stott participates in an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit fit check in the Space Station Airlock Test…

Discovery Poised for Flight
Discovery Poised for Flight

The space shuttle Discovery is poised for liftoff on the STS-128 mission from Pad 39a at the Kennedy Space Center…

Testing for the Future
Testing for the Future

The Lunar Electric Rover (now Space Exploration Vehicle or SEV) is being tested at NASA Johnson Space Center’s planetary analog…

Glint in the Cat’s Eye
Glint in the Cat’s Eye

This image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula was made by combining data from two of NASA’s Great Observatories-Chandra and the…

Preparing for Flight
Preparing for Flight

Technicians carefully position an Orion flight test crew module to be airlifted from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center to the…

Spirit’s View From ‘Troy’
Spirit’s View From ‘Troy’

Today, Aug. 18, 2009, marks the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit’s 2,000th sol, or Martian day, on the Red Planet. This…