This multiple exposure from 1967 shows a simulated landing of the Apollo Lunar Lander trainer at Langley’s Lunar Landing Research…
Through the combined efforts of JPL and the Army Ballistic Missile Ballistic Agency, Explorer 1 launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.,…
On May 19, 2005, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of…
The NASA family lost seven of its own on the morning of January 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed,…
This bird’s-eye view combines a self-portrait of the spacecraft deck and a panoramic mosaic of the Martian surface as viewed…
Reddish spots and shallow pits pepper the ridged surface of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, in this view combining information from images…
Astronaut John Glenn relaxes aboard the USS Noa after being recovered from the Atlantic near Grand Turk Island after his…
This map of Jupiter is the most detailed global color map of the planet ever produced. The round map is…
NASA scientists at the Langley Research Center in Virginia stand in front of the aeroshell that protected the Viking Lander…
Two seamstresses stitch together a sun-shade for the Skylab Orbital Workshop, the first United States Experimental space station in orbit,…