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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

This new composite image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the dusty remains of a collapsed…

Launch Abort Test Set Up
Launch Abort Test Set Up

Technicians positioned the boilerplate crew module for the launch abort system Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) flight test on the launch pad…

Launch Abort Test Set Up
Launch Abort Test Set Up

Technicians used a crane to hoist the boilerplate crew module for the Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) flight test from its transportation…

Boilerplate Crew Module Positioned
Boilerplate Crew Module Positioned

Technicians positioned the boilerplate crew module on the launch pad March 23 in preparation for the Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) flight…

Flying by the “Death Star” Moon
Flying by the “Death Star” Moon

In this view captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on its closest-ever flyby of Saturn’s moon Mimas, large Herschel Crater dominates…

NASA’s First Class of Female Astronauts
NASA’s First Class of Female Astronauts

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher,…

STS-31 Crew at Prelaunch News Briefing
STS-31 Crew at Prelaunch News Briefing

The STS-31 (Discovery) crew with models of the Hubble Space Telescope and space shuttle at a news briefing 30 days…

Preparing Discovery for Flight
Preparing Discovery for Flight

A specialized transporter brought the payload canister to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for the STS-131 mission. The canister, which…

Learning Can Be a ‘Drag’
Learning Can Be a ‘Drag’

When Ajay Ramesh and Prithvi Aiyaswamy, two seventh graders from Chaboya Middle School, San Jose, Calif., visited the Fluid Mechanics…