Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and astronaut Steve Bowen (out of frame) worked to clean…
STS-126 astronaut Steve Bowen and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (out of frame) worked to clean and lubricate part of the station’s starboard…
Space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station’s robotic Canadarm2 (foreground) are featured in this view while the shuttle as…
Kepler focal plane assembly
The International Space Station’s Expedition 18 crew provided a close-up view of Endeavour’s tail section. The image provides partial views…
Not long after the opening of the payload bay doors on space shuttle Endeavour, the crew was able to get…
Blazing light surrounds Launch Pad 39A and glows in the nearby water as space shuttle Endeavour leaps into the sky…
Blazing light surrounds space shuttle Endeavour, eclipsing the light from the nearby full moon, as it roars into space from…
Nearly 40 years after their historic flight, the crew of Apollo 8 reunited as part of a special public program…
Hermann Potocnik (1892-1929), better known as Herman Noordung, created the first detailed technical drawings of a space station. This 1929…
