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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…
After Mercury came Gemini, the project that would put to the test the maneuvers that would be required if Apollo…
In the opinion of many space historians, Langley’s most important contribution to the Apollo program was its development of Lunar…
Technicians from Ball Aerospace inspected the honeycomb structure of the Kepler Space Telescope’s primary mirror. The mirror has been 86%…
Data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite in September 2005 show the heaviest rain developing in the eastern bands…
