Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., command pilot of the Gemini V spacecraft, is hoisted into a recovery helicopter after the…
Jerrie Cobb poses next to a Mercury spaceship capsule. And, although she never flew in space, Cobb, along with 24…
Skylab 4 commander Gerald Carr jokingly demonstrates weight training in zero gravity as he balances fellow astronaut William Pogue, the…
Echo, NASA’s first communications satellite, was a passive spacecraft based on a balloon design created by an engineer at the…
As the Apollo 10 crew walks along a corridor on the way to Launch Complex 39B, mission commander Thomas P.…
This time exposure photograph of the Mobile Service Structure makes the structure apprear as a streak of light as it…
In 1865, Jules Verne wrote a science fiction story entitled, “From the Earth to the Moon.” The story outlined the…
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…
