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Training for Apollo 9
Training for Apollo 9

This fish-eye camera lens view of the interior of the Apollo Lunar Module Mission Simulator at the Kennedy Space Center…

The Road to Apollo
The Road to Apollo

NASA Langley Research Center engineers designed the control cab of the Lunar Landing Research Facility’s original landing module from the…

Flight of the X-15
Flight of the X-15

A technician straps legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield into the cockpit of the X-15 rocket plane before an early test…

The Road to Apollo – Lunar Surface Landing Practice
The Road to Apollo – Lunar Surface Landing Practice

With floodlights shining down to simulate lunar light and the base modeled to resemble the lunar surface, 24 astronauts practiced…

Crystal Formation
Crystal Formation

This artist’s concept illustrates how silicate crystals like those found in comets can be created by an outburst from a…

Gulfstream C-20A Arctic Ice Radar Mission Flight Tracks
Gulfstream C-20A Arctic Ice Radar Mission Flight Tracks

The blue lines superimposed over a Google Earth image of Iceland showed the tracks flown by NASA’s Gulfstream C-20A science…

Anatomy of a Busted Comet
Anatomy of a Busted Comet

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured this image of comet Holmes in March 2008, five months after the comet suddenly erupted…

Fly Away Home
Fly Away Home

This overhead view is of Atlantis atop a modified 747 as the craft flew over California’s high desert. Atlantis and…

On Mercury
On Mercury

Why are many large craters on Mercury relatively smooth inside? Images from the MESSENGER spacecraft that flew by Mercury in…

As Big As the Sun
As Big As the Sun

This artist’s concept shows the smallest star known to host a planet. The planet, called VB 10b, was discovered using…