Flight Engineer Shannon Walker tends to plants growing inside the Veggie plant growth facility for the Veg-03J space botany study.
Thornton became an astronaut in 1967 and flew on two space shuttle missions.
Inside star cluster NGC 602, a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, bright, blue, newly formed stars are blowing…
The Iguazu River in Brazil is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 265 miles above the South…
Houston, Texas (home of NASA’s Johnson Space Center), Galveston Bay and the Gulf coast are pictured from the International Space…
The Chuska Mountains of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico are pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited…
Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, on the island of Hawaii is pictured from the International Space Station as…
Cape Canaveral, Florida (home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center), is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 261…
This week in 2015, NASA engineers successfully conducted the first hot fire test of the RS-25 engine and engine controller…
Astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the…
