An experimental drag chute deploys amidst a cloud of dust behind NASA’s B-52 research aircraft just after landing on Rogers…
A close-up of an experimental drag chute deploying in a cloud of dust behind NASA’s B-52 research aircraft just after…
A rear view of NASA’s B-52 research aircraft deploying an experimental drag chute just after landing on Rogers Dry Lake,…
Hubble’s first image, taken in 1990.
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was the first mission to be launched as part of the Great Observatories program. HST…
A close-up, front view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) as technicians prepare the orbiter for…
The Space Transportation System 34 (STS-34) Space Shuttle mission carried Galileo into space for its interplanetary mission. Galileo used gravitational…
Voyager 2 came within 4,950 kilometers (3,000 miles) of Neptune’s North Pole and sent the first images back of the…
The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) was declared operational with three (one in the East, one in the…
The main parachute began to deploy on the mock-up of an F-111 “Aardvark” bomber cockpit section after being dropped from…
