In the Baikonur Cosmodrome Museum in Kazakhstan, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev (left) of the Russian Federal Space Agency…
The Space Shuttle Atlantis carried the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) module in its cargo bay in March…
John H. Glenn, one of the Mercury Seven Astronauts, runs through a training exercise in the Mercury Procedures Trainer simulator…
Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA reviews rendezvous procedures with a training instructor.
Expedition 39/40 rehearse rendezvous procedures on a laptop simulator.
The first generation X-1 aircraft changed aviation history in numerous ways, and not simply because they were the first aircraft…
Technicians prepare the 18-foot-diameter (5.5-meter) tank during manufacturing at the Boeing Developmental Center in Tukwila, Wash.
This hardy star within a supernova remnant is located in a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small companion…
A robot heats advanced composite materials to form the skin of a composite tank designed to hold super cold propellants.
One of the largest composite rocket propellant tanks ever manufactured is prepared for transport on NASA’s Super Guppy airplane.
