On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard Jr. became the first American in space when Freedom 7 was launched by a…
JSC2013-E-028655 (6 May 2013) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 36/37 backup crew member…
The LAGEOS I, Laser Geodynamics Satellite, was launched on May 4,1976 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The two-foot diameter,…
These images of Earth were reconstructed from photos taken by three smartphones in orbit, or “PhoneSats.” The trio of PhoneSats…
A model of NASA’s Orion spacecraft is poised to be dropped from a C-17 airplane 25,000 feet above the Arizona…
To test the Orion parachute system, engineers rigged one of the test capsule’s three main parachutes – the middle parachute…
