Astronauts Jim Reilly and John Olivas (visible among Reilly’s helmet reflections), both STS-117 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s first…
Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (top), Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station science officer, and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer…
This is one of a series of images photographed with a digital still camera featuring the different areas of the…
Concluding mission STS-115, Atlantis and her crew return to Kennedy Space Center and approach a landing before sunrise on Runway…
Compared to Old World settlements like Rome and Alexandria, Egypt, Cape Cod is fairly young. Cape Cod’s geology is fairly…
Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson participated in the 100th spacewalk for the construction and maintenance of the International Space…
Though ghostly in appearance like a hologram, aerogel is very solid and feels like hard styrofoam to the touch. Aerogel…
Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter lifts off from Cape Canaveral on May 24, 1962, in his Aurora 7 capsule. The fourth…
An aluminum bulkhead of the center truss segment test article for the international space station completes machining at Boeing facilities…
This 1992 photograph shows a world record breaking paper airplane inside a hangar at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia.
