Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson, Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko and spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor blasted off from the Baikonur…
Dark and sharply defined ring shadows appear to constrict the flow of color from Saturn’s warmly hued south to the…
The equinox is an astronomical event that marks the first day of autumn in the northern hemisphere and spring in…
The crew of STS-85 used a 35mm camera with a time exposure to record this image of the southern lights…
In Firing Room 4 of the Launch Control Center, employees wave American flags after the successful launch of Space Shuttle…
This 1964 photograph shows NASA Pilot Joe Walker in the pilot’s platform of the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) number…
On July 1, 1976, President Gerald Ford attended the opening ceremony for the National Air and Space Museum. During the…
One of the final “dry runs” found the Expedition 1 crew members training for their upcoming mission, about a week-and-half…
The same weather system that brought snow and ice to the American Midwest just after Thanksgiving 2005 also kicked up…
Images from the Hubble space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory combine to make this composite of N49,…
