Just after sunrise, the Delta II rocket carrying NASA’s Dawn spacecraft rises from its launch pad to begin its 1.7-billion-mile…
For three days, employees Kennedy Space Center and other NASA centers, along with those from the Department of Defense, participated…
This cockpit view of a hypothetical spacecraft traveling at eight-tenths the speed of light shows the visual distortions that would…
Ikhana fiber optic wing shape sensor team: clockwise from left, Anthony “Nino” Piazza, Allen Parker, William Ko, and Lance Richards.
One of a series, this image of Saturn was taken when the planet’s rings were at their maximum tilt of…
This 1997 montage of planetary images was taken by spacecraft managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Included are (from top…
In the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Orbiter Transport System gets ready to roll in under…
The Uvs Nuur Basin sits on the northern edge of the Central Asian steppes, bounded on all sides by mountains.…
Once a medieval fortress, Scotland’s Edinburgh is nicknamed “Athens of the North.” Today, the city preserves landmarks from centuries past,…
A DC-8 casts its shadow over the Bering Sea, as it flies over the sea’s icy surface in this image…
