At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers prepare the fifth and final solid rocket booster for lifting into…
July 18, 2011, is John Glenn's 90th birthday. On Feb. 20, 1962 at 9:47 am EST, Glenn launched from Cape…
In this view of the International Space Station's Cupola, a variety of modules and components of the station showcase the…
Engineers at the gantry conducted a successful first drop test of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) boilerplate test article,…
This close-up image shows the 'Materials on International Space Station Experiment-8.' Taken during the spacewalk on July 12, 2011, the…
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of the giant asteroid Vesta with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. It…
Astronaut Ron Garan took this image during the spacewalk conducted on Tues., July 12, 2011. It shows the International Space…
Space shuttle Atlantis, now docked to the ISS for the last resupply mission of NASA's 30-year shuttle program, witnessed the…
The July 14, 2011 aurora Australis as seen from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The picture also shows…
This panoramic shot of the Aurora Australis also shows space shuttle Atlantis, the boom sensor system attached to the shuttle's…
