People gathered around Huntsville’s courthouse to celebrate the landmark spaceflight of the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, in orbit on…
DELETE THIS????? The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), the second and heaviest of NASA’s Great Observatories was observing high-energy in…
M81 is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light years away that is both relatively large and bright in the…
Launching a balloon for calibrating instruments that measure ozone.
On May 4, 1989, the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-30) lifted off from Kennedy Space Center.
Nili Patera is one of the most active dune fields on Mars. By monitoring the sand dune changes, we can…
How differential deflection of the inboard and outboard leading-edge flaps affected the handling qualities of this modified F/A-18A was evaluated…
Named for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was established on May 1, 1959,…
NASA's single-seat F-16XL tail number 849 is shown accelerating in full afterburner during a flight in 1995.
A bug's-eye view of NASA's F-16XL at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA, shows the unique shape of its…
