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…
The tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska, fills most of this image. The Malaspina lies west…
Birds don’t fly this high. Airplanes don’t go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than…
In this September 2000 image, NEAR Shoemaker’s then-current 100-kilometer (62-mile) orbit gave it a bird’s eye view of the asteroid…
There is no permanent human base on South Georgia Island, a British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean that lies…
