Image of the DayThis 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...Two members of the prime crew of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission participate in training at the Kennedy Space...Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., command pilot of the Gemini V spacecraft, is hoisted into a recovery helicopter after the...Jerrie Cobb poses next to a Mercury spaceship capsule. And, although she never flew in space, Cobb, along with 24...Skylab 4 commander Gerald Carr jokingly demonstrates weight training in zero gravity as he balances fellow astronaut William Pogue, the...Echo, NASA's first communications satellite, was a passive spacecraft based on a balloon design created by an engineer at the...As the Apollo 10 crew walks along a corridor on the way to Launch Complex 39B, mission commander Thomas P....This time exposure photograph of the Mobile Service Structure makes the structure apprear as a streak of light as it...In 1865, Jules Verne wrote a science fiction story entitled, "From the Earth to the Moon." The story outlined the...This false color photograph of Neptune was made from Voyager 2 images taken in January 1996. The image reveals the...Dr. Carl Sagan, best known for his acclaimed public television series "Cosmos," poses with a model of the Viking lander...On December 16, 1992, 8 days after its encounter with Earth, the Galileo spacecraft looked back from a distance of...Forty-one years ago today on Dec. 4, 1965, NASA launched Gemini VII. With this mission, NASA successfully completed its first...As the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing on the moon, Surveyor 1, proved the...Pictured is a composite image combining many short exposures. Visible in the image are the tail of the airplane reflecting...Members of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs, also known as the "Mercury 13"), these seven women who once aspired...Waves of clouds along the east flanks of the Andes Mountains cast off an orange glow by the low angle...Bright scars on a darker surface testify to a long history of impacts on Jupiter's moon Callisto in this image...This frame from the microscopic imager on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows spherules up to about 5 millimeters (one-fifth...Astronauts Jerry L. Ross (left) and James H. Newman, both mission specialists, work together on the final of three space...In this May 15, 2004 image, dark regions represent areas where Cassini is seeing into deeper levels in Saturn's atmosphere....Recent solar activity has produced some spectacular aurora in areas not usually lucky enough to see them, like this dazzling...
