Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth’s horizon, the updated International Space Station is seen from Discovery as the…
With the Atlantic Ocean as a backdrop, an Atlas V launch vehicle, 19 stories tall, with a two-ton Mars Reconnaissance…
Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center test a model of the Shooting Star Experiment (SSE), designed to develop and…
“The world changed today. What I say or do is very minor compared to the significance of what happened to…
Visible through a window on Endeavour’s aft flight deck, astronaut Rick Linnehan participates in the mission’s third scheduled spacewalk. During…
Interior view of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module (LM) showing the “mail box,” a jury-rigged arrangement which the Apollo 13…
This view featuring a sunrise dissecting a line of airglow of Earth’s atmosphere was photographed by an STS-114 crewmember onboard…
Ephemeral Lake Carnegie, in Western Australia, fills with water only during periods of significant rainfall. In dry years, it is…
Expedition 12 commander William S. McArthur, Jr. (right) and cosmonaut Valery I. Tokarev (left) participate in a training session in…
Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, astronaut Rick Linnehan participates in the mission’s first scheduled spacewalk. During the seven-hour…
