Image of the DayAstronaut 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...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...
