As Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter in 1979, it captured this photo of the Great Red Spot. The Great Red…
April 26, 2003, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Astronaut Edward T. Lu, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer for Expedition Seven…
Astronaut Michael E. Fossum, an STS-121 mission specialist, participates in the mission’s second extravehicular activity. During the more than six-hour…
Two NASA employees stand in front of Intelsat IV in its sound-absorbing, or anechoic, chamber in this 1972 photo. Intelsat,…
NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has snapped its 200,000th image of the red planet since entering orbit in September 1997.…
Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center conduct studies in 1964 to determine the types of difficulties astronauts might encounter on…
This computer generated image depicts a view of Earth as seen from the surface of the asteroid Toutatis on Nov.…
This view of Tibet’s Brahmaputra River was taken on Oct. 13, 2000, by the Expedition 3 crew. This Asian river…
The Cassini spacecraft captured this spectacular view of a landslide on Saturn’s moon, Iapetus. Landslides are common geological phenomena on…
STS-121 mission specialist Piers J. Sellers, wearing a training version of the space suit used for extravehicular activity (EVA), participates…