Image of the DayEarth 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...This false-color view combines frames taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the rover's 652...This photograph taken on December 15, 1965 shows the Gemini 7 spacecraft as it was observed from the hatch window...The photograph from 1959 shows the Project Mercury Altitude Wind Tunnel Gimbaling Rig. The Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility,...Taken by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on Mars, this image is the first photograph ever...What did the first quasars look like? The nearest quasars are now known to be supermassive black holes in the...In the turbulent era of 1960s Cold War confrontations, Moon race headlines, and war in southeast Asia, eight test pilots...This multiple exposure from 1967 shows a simulated landing of the Apollo Lunar Lander trainer at Langley's Lunar Landing Research...Through the combined efforts of JPL and the Army Ballistic Missile Ballistic Agency, Explorer 1 launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.,...On May 19, 2005, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the sun sank below the rim of...The NASA family lost seven of its own on the morning of January 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed,...This bird's-eye view combines a self-portrait of the spacecraft deck and a panoramic mosaic of the Martian surface as viewed...Reddish spots and shallow pits pepper the ridged surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa, in this view combining information from images...Astronaut John Glenn relaxes aboard the USS Noa after being recovered from the Atlantic near Grand Turk Island after his...This map of Jupiter is the most detailed global color map of the planet ever produced. The round map is...NASA scientists at the Langley Research Center in Virginia stand in front of the aeroshell that protected the Viking Lander...Two seamstresses stitch together a sun-shade for the Skylab Orbital Workshop, the first United States Experimental space station in orbit,...This composite illustration is of the planet Neptune, as seen from its moon Triton. Neptune's south pole is to the...This mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, is a...This false-color mosaic shows deep-level clouds silhouetted against Saturn's glowing interior. This mosaic shows the entire planet, including features like...This "family portrait," a composite of the Jovian system, includes the edge of Jupiter with its Great Red Spot, and...NASA's second round of human space flights got off the ground 40 years ago with the launch of Gemini III...Lunar module pilot James Irwin works at the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the first Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity...On July 20, 1969, the America's Apollo 11 landed on the moon, making history as the first humans set foot...On Aug. 23, 1966, the world received its first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of...This gold aluminum cover was designed to protect the Voyager 1 and 2 "Sounds of Earth" gold-plated records from micrometeorite...In this photograph from 1962, President John F. Kennedy attends a briefing given by Major Rocco Petrone during a tour...A new chapter in space flight began in July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral,...The S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket is hoisted onto the A-2 test stand in 1967 at the Mississippi...This image of astronaut and Gemini 5 pilot Charles Conrad Jr. inside the spacecraft as it orbited the Earth was...William H. Pickering, (center) director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, presents a model of the Mariner spacecraft to President John...In this 1960 photograph, the seven original Mercury astronauts participate in U.S. Air Force survival training exercises at Stead Air...Astronauts John Young (left) and Virgil "Gus" Grissom took part in training exercises as the back-up crew for the Gemini...On June 3, 1965, Edward H. White II became the first American to step outside his spacecraft and let go,...The lowest spot on land, the Dead Sea depression sinks 400 meters (1,300 feet) below sea level. River beds known...Astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, STS-116 mission specialist, attired in a training version of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit, awaits a...Saturn's B and C rings shine in diffuse, scattered light as the Cassini spacecraft looks on the planet's night side....This time exposure of the Southern Lights was photographed with a 35mm camera from 115 nautical miles above Earth by...The surface of the moon is reflected in the command and service module as it prepares to rendezvous with the...
