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Spirit’s ‘Wishstone’
Spirit’s ‘Wishstone’

The Spirit rover had to dig a little deeper to find out more about this martian rock, dubbed “Wishstone.” Spirit…

Unfurling Its Wings
Unfurling Its Wings

The Space Shuttle Atlantis crew spread a second set of wings for the International Space Station. The new solar arrays…

Saturn and Enceladus
Saturn and Enceladus

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus hovers above Saturn’s exquisite rings in this color view from Cassini. The rings, made of nearly…

Self-Portrait
Self-Portrait

Astronaut Steve Robinson turns the camera on himself during his historic repair job “underneath” Discovery on August 3. The Shuttle’s…

Earth in Perspective
Earth in Perspective

The STS-114 crew captured this view of Earth from the Shuttle-Station complex on day nine of the mission. 

South Pole of the Sun
South Pole of the Sun

This March 27, 2007, image is one of many taken by NASA’s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites, which have…

Hot, Young Stars
Hot, Young Stars

Westerlund 2, a young star cluster with an estimated age of about one or two million years, is the subject…

Old London Town
Old London Town

Numerous well-known landmarks appear in this detailed view of London taken from the International Space Station on April 5, 2005.…

Self-Portrait During STS-115 Spacewalk
Self-Portrait During STS-115 Spacewalk

Astronaut Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, STS-115 mission specialist, took this self-portrait . The mission specialist had just unstowed the forward Solar…

HL-10 Lifting Body
HL-10 Lifting Body

This 1964 photograph shows a full scale model of the HL-10 lifting body mounted in the Full Scale Tunnel at…