Gene Kranz (foreground, back to camera), an Apollo 13 Flight Director, watches Apollo 13 astronaut and lunar module pilot Fred…
An artist's concept shows the Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle and future destinations for human exploration beyond Earth orbit: the moon,…
This image is from a 2008 cold flow test campaign conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for the J-2X…
NGC 281 is known informally as the "Pacman Nebula" because of its appearance in optical images.
This infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, showcases the Tadpole Nebula, a star-forming hub in the…
This artist's concept shows a glowing patch of ultraviolet light near Saturn's north pole that occurs at the "footprint" of…
Intense auroral glow framed by parting rain clouds was captured near local midnight from Kvaløya island outside Tromsø in northern…
Behemoth sunspot 1302 unleashed another strong flare on Sept. 24, 2011-an X1.9-category blast at 5:40 am EDT. At the peak…
JSC2011-E-120368 (9 Sept. 2011) -- Construction on the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Module began with the first weld at…
JSC2011-E-120372 (9 Sept. 2011) -- Construction on the first space-bound Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Module began with the first weld at…
