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Titan-Centaur Launches Voyager
Titan-Centaur Launches Voyager

Titan-Centaur 7 lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, sending an 1,800-pound Voyager spacecraft on…

Viking Prepared
Viking Prepared

Technicians prepare for removal of Viking Lander 1's aeroshell cover in Kennedy's Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2. The cover remained…

Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia Rolls to Launch Pad
Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia Rolls to Launch Pad

Space shuttle Columbia, the vehicle for the first space shuttle mission, moves out of the Vehicle Assembly Building for the…

Shuttle Era Begins: Launch Control Center
Shuttle Era Begins: Launch Control Center

The move of space shuttle Columbia from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad A at Launch Complex 39 was monitored…

Orion’s Rainbow of Infrared Light
Orion’s Rainbow of Infrared Light

This new view of the Orion Nebula highlights fledgling stars hidden in the gas and clouds. It shows infrared observations…

Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia Rolls Down the Crawlerway
Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia Rolls Down the Crawlerway

The STS-1 vehicle - consisting of America's first reusable spaceship, space shuttle Columbia, the external propellant tank and twin solid…

Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia Approaches the Pad
Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia Approaches the Pad

America's first reusable spaceship, space shuttle Columbia, approaches Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A.

Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia’s Flight Deck
Shuttle Era Begins: Columbia’s Flight Deck

Astronauts for the first space shuttle mission, Commander John Young and Pilot Robert Crippen, take a break from their intensive…

Two M-flares March 10, 2012
Two M-flares March 10, 2012

An active region on the sun, seen here as the bright spot in the upper right quadrant, has been moving…

Moon Bound – Apollo 11 – Neil Armstrong in Lunar Module Simulator
Moon Bound – Apollo 11 – Neil Armstrong in Lunar Module Simulator

Neil A. Armstrong, commander for the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission, practices for the historic event in a lunar module simulator…