On May 23, 2014, Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson posted this photograph of the Western Sahara -- taken from the…
Researchers had to bushwhack a mile or so off the road in rough terrain in hot, humid conditions to recover…
Tanks of helium are used to fill the balloons that researchers are getting ready to launch in Australia to study…
LADEE orbited the Moon to gather detailed information about the lunar atmosphere, conditions near the surface, and environmental influences on…
A Piper PA-30 Twin Commanche, known as NASA 808, was used at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center as a…
In the 1960s, the Saturn I first stages for the SA-4, SA-6, and SA-7 missions were assembled by the Fabrication…
On Feb. 10, 2001, the crews of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station successfully installed the U.S.…
MESSENGER mapped the composition of Mercury's surface, took images to determine the structure of the magnetic field, determined the composition…
On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7.
This April 6, 2014, image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows…
