President John F. Kennedy, astronaut John Glenn and General Leighton I. Davis ride together during a parade in Cocoa Beach,…
In this 1948 photograph, test pilot Lawrence Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the…
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is still four months and millions of miles from Saturn, but it’s already close enough to send…
This 1962 photo shows Robert St. John in a pilot restraint and closed loop breathing system at NASA’s Ames Research…
Space Shuttle Atlantis takes flight on the STS-27 mission in December 2, 1988. The Shuttle takes about 8.5 minutes to…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the “butterfly wing”- shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000…
In this 1959 image, a technician checks the Mercury full-scale capsule model prior to testing at NASA Langley Research Center,…
Flooding the night sky with its blazing light, Space Shuttle Discovery leaps toward the sky from Launch Pad 39B on…
Astronaut Gus Grissom climbs into “Liberty Bell 7” spacecraft before launch on the morning of July 21, 1961. Astronaut John…
Light emitted by a planet far beyond our Solar System has been identified for the first time. The planet, illustrated…