
Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 39 flight engineer, signs a wall in the Quest airlock of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station after…

Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 39 flight engineer, places his crew patch on the wall in the Quest airlock of the Earth-orbiting…

Steve Swanson, Expedition 39 flight engineer about to become Expedition 40 commander, signs a wall in the Quest airlock of…

Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is welcomed home upon his return at Chkalovsky Airport in Russia,…

Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is welcomed home upon his return at Chkalovsky Airport in Russia,…

Rick Mastracchio of NASA is helped out of the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after landing.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) instrument on its robotic arm to illuminate and record…

The Pathfinder was a lightweight, solar-powered, remotely piloted flying wing aircraft that demonstrated the technology of applying solar power for…

This panorama featuring Earth's horizon and clouds over the South Pacific Ocean, complemented with a "tiny" distant moon (upper right),…

Photographed by one of the Expedition 36 crew members, a node on the International Space Station is backdropped by a…