Although originally designed to measure atmospheric water vapor and temperature profiles for weather forecasting, data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder…
The Soyuz launch pad is seen prior to the rollout of the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in…
Ring shadows line the face of distant Saturn, providing a backdrop for the brilliant, white sphere of Enceladus. This icy…
SOFIA’s 9-foot mirror is lowered into the cavity and attached to a structure sitting on a thin layer of oil…
About 4,000 light years from Earth lies RCW 108, a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way…
After completing its mission to re-supply the International Space Station, the European Space Agency’s Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…
A welder at NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) grinds welds on an Ares I-X rocket segment being readied for shipment…
Expedition 14 commander Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (left) and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer representing Russia’s Federal Space Agency, conduct pre-spacewalk…
Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton works with equipment associated with servicing the Hubble Space Telescope during the fourth extravehicular activity on…
