This fish-eye camera lens view of the interior of the Apollo Lunar Module Mission Simulator at the Kennedy Space Center…
NASA Langley Research Center engineers designed the control cab of the Lunar Landing Research Facility’s original landing module from the…
A technician straps legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield into the cockpit of the X-15 rocket plane before an early test…
With floodlights shining down to simulate lunar light and the base modeled to resemble the lunar surface, 24 astronauts practiced…
This artist’s concept illustrates how silicate crystals like those found in comets can be created by an outburst from a…
The blue lines superimposed over a Google Earth image of Iceland showed the tracks flown by NASA’s Gulfstream C-20A science…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured this image of comet Holmes in March 2008, five months after the comet suddenly erupted…
This overhead view is of Atlantis atop a modified 747 as the craft flew over California’s high desert. Atlantis and…
Why are many large craters on Mercury relatively smooth inside? Images from the MESSENGER spacecraft that flew by Mercury in…
This artist’s concept shows the smallest star known to host a planet. The planet, called VB 10b, was discovered using…