During the second spacewalk on December 12, 1972, Apollo 17 Mission Commander Eugene A. Cernan is standing near the lunar…
The two Bell XV-15 Tiltrotor aircraft were involved in limited research at the Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center in…
Engineers position a 27.5-foot-diameter cylinder for the first full-scale Shell Buckling and Knockdown Factor Project test.
On Dec. 6, 1998, the crew of space shuttle mission STS-88 began construction of the International Space Station, attaching the…
Illuminated by the light of nearby stars, the nebula M-78 exhibits a ghostly appearance.
An Expedition 38 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this photograph showing a part of South Africa's Atlantic…
Engineers examine NASA's TDRS-L satellite after its rotation into place inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., for…
Workers unload NASA's TDRS-L satellite from the hold of a C-17 transport aircraft at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's…
U.S. Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. (D.-Ohio), gets help with final touches of the donning of his partial-pressure launch and…
In the launch pad's White Room, STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., U.S. Senator from Ohio, has his flight…