
This view of space shuttle Discovery’s tail section was taken on flight day 3 by the Expedition 17 crew aboard…

During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. The…

Above Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Discovery emerges from behind a growing cloud of smoke…

North is up (the 12 o’clock position) in this seam-corrected 360 degree polar projection using images from sols, or Martian…

Space shuttle Discovery leaps from the billows of smoke below into a clear blue sky on its STS-124 mission to…

At Launch Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers begin lowering the GLAST spacecraft into the…

This approximate color view was obtained on sol, or Martian day, 2 by the Surface Stereo Imager on board the…

This image, released on America’s Memorial Day, May 26, 2008, shows the American flag and a mini-DVD on the Phoenix’s…

All of aerospace engineer Jill Prince’s calculations paid off with the successful landing of the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars.