NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, then known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station…
Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean climbs down the lunar module Intrepid, joining Pete Conrad on the moon, November 19, 1969.
How can something as big as a star go undetected? The answer is dust. Stellar nursery DR21 is shrouded in…
Cassini peers around the hazy limb of the frigid moon Titan to spy the sunlit south pole of Saturn in…
A Boeing Delta II rocket, left, fires its engines on Saturday, Nov. 20, sending NASA’s Swift satellite into orbit from…
Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 a.m., Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.…
As the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit began collecting images for a 360-degree panorama of new terrain, the rover captured this…
Aviator Charles Lindbergh took this picture of Robert H. Goddard’s rocket, as he peered down the launching tower on Sept.…
Light-years in length, this cosmic tornado is actually a powerful jet cataloged as HH (Herbig-Haro) 49/50. Though such energetic outflows…
Astronaut Piers J. Sellers works on the shuttle’s Remote Manipulator System/Orbiter Boom Sensor System during the mission’s first scheduled session…
