Image of the DayFramed by the Earth's horizon and airglow, the full moon floats in the blackness of space in this photo from...Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies the young star...Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott salutes the American flag at the the Hadley-Apennine lunar landing site. The Lunar Module "Falcon"...Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., Apollo 16 Lunar Module pilot, is photographed collecting lunar samples at Station No. 1 during...Miranda is a bizarre world, which surely had a tempestuous past. The innermost of the larger Uranian moons, Miranda is...Pictured is astronaut Walter M. Schirra, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April...President John F. Kennedy, astronaut John Glenn and General Leighton I. Davis ride together during a parade in Cocoa Beach,...In this 1948 photograph, test pilot Lawrence Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the...The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is still four months and millions of miles from Saturn, but it's already close enough to send...This 1962 photo shows Robert St. John in a pilot restraint and closed loop breathing system at NASA's Ames Research...Space Shuttle Atlantis takes flight on the STS-27 mission in December 2, 1988. The Shuttle takes about 8.5 minutes to...The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the "butterfly wing"- shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000...In this 1959 image, a technician checks the Mercury full-scale capsule model prior to testing at NASA Langley Research Center,...Flooding the night sky with its blazing light, Space Shuttle Discovery leaps toward the sky from Launch Pad 39B on...Astronaut Gus Grissom climbs into "Liberty Bell 7" spacecraft before launch on the morning of July 21, 1961. Astronaut John...Light emitted by a planet far beyond our Solar System has been identified for the first time. The planet, illustrated...The Earth's horizon and the Shuttle Discovery are reflected in a spacewalking astronaut's visor during the STS-103 mission in December...Astronaut Carlos I. Noriega, mission specialist, waves toward his space walk partner, astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, as Tanner snaps a...When the Hubble Space Telescope rocketed into orbit aboard the Shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990, the world of astronomy...Space Shuttle Discovery is bathed in light on Launch Pad 39B. Seen above the external tank is the vent hood...This stereo view of Mars' Victoria Crater combines two of the three images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science...The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex...This 1992 photo shows an F-16 Scamp model being tested in the Basic Aerodynamics Research Tunnel or BART, at NASA's...Harsh lighting produced this dramatic effect as mission specialist Gregory Harbaugh photographed colleague Joseph Tanner during their second spacewalk to...In this 1999 photograph, Ken Strite, NASA Quality Control, inspected the connection between Space Shuttle Discovery and the external tank...Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture...In the quest to better understand the birth of stars and the formation of new worlds, astronomers have used NASA's...Images from the world's first high definition television (HDTV) broadcast from space flashed across the screen yesterday in Times Square....Expedition 13 crewmembers-cosmonaut Pavel V. Vinogradov (center), commander, and astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams (right), flight engineer-along with spaceflight participant Anousheh...NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes teamed up to expose the chaos that baby stars are creating 1,500 light years...This week marks six years of continuous crew operations aboard the International Space Station (ISS).With his feet secured on the Canadarm2, European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang, an STS-116 mission specialist, works to relocate...Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually a pillar of gas...In the nearby galaxy known as the Small Magellanic Cloud, a massive star has exploded as a supernova and begun...This 1961 photograph from NASA's Langley Research Center pictures a .005 inch x 1 inch supersonic transport scale model for...NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope finds a delicate flower in the Ring Nebula, as shown in this image. The outer shell...This aerial view of Launch Complex 14 with Missile Row visible to the right shows the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9), which...Sunlight filters through Saturn's rings in sepia tones in this artful view of the dark side of the rings taken...Earth and its moon are nicely framed in this image taken from the aft windows of the Space Shuttle Discovery...How tall are mountains on Jupiter's moon Io? One way to find out is to view them at sunset. Tall...
