This 1963 model depicts an early Apollo lunar lander concept, called a “bug.” Engineers designed several possible vehicle shapes for…
Standing tall at its fully assembled height of 327 feet, the Ares I-X is one of the largest rockets ever…
Cepheus B, a molecular cloud located in our Milky Galaxy about 2,400 light years from the Earth, provides an excellent…
In this simulated image of Saturn’s rings, color is used to present information about ring particle sizes in different regions…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark – a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object…
The U.S. Air Force’s F-16D Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology (ACAT) aircraft takes off from Edwards Air Force Base on a…
A white-hot flame surrounded by red hot exhaust shoots from a recent test of the J-2X engine ‘workhorse’ gas generator…
Rollout of space shuttle Discovery was slow-going due to the onset of lightning in the area of Launch Pad 39A…
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring…
Mission commander Alan Shepard assembles a double core tube. Astronauts Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar D. Mitchell, who took…