The parachute for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) passed flight-qualification after testing in March and April 2009 inside the world’s…
President Richard M. Nixon and the Apollo 13 crew salute the U.S. flag during the post-mission ceremonies at Hickam Air…
Standing in front of the Long Duration Balloon Facility are ATIC lead scientist Joachim Isbert and NASA engineer Tia Ferguson.…
Technicians were performing pre-launch testing of the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA9) on Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral when this photo…
In the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., technicians monitor the second half of the payload fairing as it…
Less than a year after its birth, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency announced its first astronaut class, the Mercury…
The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American Spaceflight Participant Charles…
On April 8, 2009, the Kepler spacecraft took its first snapshot of the field of diamonds in the sky it…
A small, dense object only 12 miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light…
On April 1-2, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the winning target in the Space Telescope Science Institute’s ‘You Decide’ competition…