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NEOWISE Spies Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring
NEOWISE Spies Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring

NASA's NEOWISE mission captured images of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, which is slated to make a close pass by…

Remembering Apollo 1
Remembering Apollo 1

In June 1966, the Apollo 1 crew practices water egress procedures with a full scale boilerplate model of the spacecraft.…

Western Sahara Desert
Western Sahara Desert

The Western Sahara Desert is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member on the International Space…

Cloud Bands Over the Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania
Cloud Bands Over the Western Sahara Desert, Mauritania

This photograph of cloud bands over southern Mauritania was taken from the International Space Station with an oblique angle such…

Manufacturing the Saturn V Instrument Unit
Manufacturing the Saturn V Instrument Unit

The Saturn V instrument unit, the "brains" of the Saturn V launch vehicle, was manufactured in the east high bay…

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Oct. 5, 2013
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Oct. 5, 2013

This image shows the most recent observations of the 2-mile-wide (4-kilometer-wide) comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which is the upcoming target of the…

X-36
X-36

The NASA/Boeing X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft successfully completed a 31-flight research program at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center,…

U.S. Instruments Aboard Rosetta
U.S. Instruments Aboard Rosetta

Three of NASA's contributions to the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission are pictured here. An ultraviolet spectrometer called Alice (top…

January 2014 – Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 12 (TDRS-12) Launched
January 2014 – Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 12 (TDRS-12) Launched

TDRS-12, the second of the third generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) is launched onboard an Atlas V rocket…

Saturn V Instrument Unit Final Assembly
Saturn V Instrument Unit Final Assembly

In January 1967, the Saturn V instrument unit, the "brains" that controlled the giant launch vehicle was hoisted during the…