Taken by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on Mars, this image is the first photograph ever…
In the turbulent era of 1960s Cold War confrontations, Moon race headlines, and war in southeast Asia, eight test pilots…
What did the first quasars look like? The nearest quasars are now known to be supermassive black holes in the…
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…
