This false color photograph of Neptune was made from Voyager 2 images taken in January 1996. The image reveals the…
Dr. Carl Sagan, best known for his acclaimed public television series “Cosmos,” poses with a model of the Viking lander…
Astronaut John H. Glenn, Flight Surgeon Dr. William Douglas and equipment specialist Joe Schmitt leave crew quarters prior to the…
On December 16, 1992, 8 days after its encounter with Earth, the Galileo spacecraft looked back from a distance of…
Forty-one years ago today on Dec. 4, 1965, NASA launched Gemini VII. With this mission, NASA successfully completed its first…
As the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing on the moon, Surveyor 1, proved the…
Pictured is a composite image combining many short exposures. Visible in the image are the tail of the airplane reflecting…
Members of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs, also known as the “Mercury 13”), these seven women who once aspired…
Waves of clouds along the east flanks of the Andes Mountains cast off an orange glow by the low angle…
Bright scars on a darker surface testify to a long history of impacts on Jupiter’s moon Callisto in this image…