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Shooting for the Moon
Shooting for the Moon

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, rolled aboard their Atlas V…

LRO and LCROSS Launch on Lunar Journey
LRO and LCROSS Launch on Lunar Journey

An United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off with NASA’s LRO/LRCOSS mission from Space Launch Complex-41, Cape Canaveral Air…

Jack Hills, Australia
Jack Hills, Australia

The oldest material on Earth which has yet been dated by man is a zircon mineral that is 4.4 billion…

Preparing Endeavour
Preparing Endeavour

In this image, taken June 14, workers on Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A prepare to remove the 7-inch quick…

Shedding Light on Dark Gamma Ray Bursts
Shedding Light on Dark Gamma Ray Bursts

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s biggest explosions, capable of producing so much light that ground-based telescopes easily detect it billions…

SOFIA Makes the Grade
SOFIA Makes the Grade

In the darkened interior of NASA’s SOFIA flying observatory, NASA and German scientists study the results of system tests on…

Evening Glow
Evening Glow

Night falls on Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following rollback of the pad’s rotating service…

Atlantis Revealed
Atlantis Revealed

The sun sets on Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida following rollback of the pad’s rotating…

Up, Up, and Away!
Up, Up, and Away!

From Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis roars into the sky on a…

A Beautiful Sight
A Beautiful Sight

An STS-125 crew member on board the space shuttle Atlantis snapped a still photo of the Hubble Space Telescope following…