
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…

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the “butterfly wing”- shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000…

In this 1959 image, a technician checks the Mercury full-scale capsule model prior to testing at NASA Langley Research Center,…