Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies the young star…
Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott salutes the American flag at the the Hadley-Apennine lunar landing site. The Lunar Module “Falcon”…
Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., Apollo 16 Lunar Module pilot, is photographed collecting lunar samples at Station No. 1 during…
Pictured is astronaut Walter M. Schirra, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April…
Miranda is a bizarre world, which surely had a tempestuous past. The innermost of the larger Uranian moons, Miranda is…
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…
