John Manke with the X-24B lifting body after a 1975 flight.
Rhea emerges ... After being occulted by the larger moon Titan. Occultation is a celestial event in which a larger…
After 30 years, Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the last time, marking an end to…
After 45 years of service, the Merritt Island Launch Annex (MILA) was retired. MILA had tracked hundreds of launches and…
NASA Langley's Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Instrument (MEDLI) - black box, middle left - is one step closer to…
Photographed from a shuttle training aircraft, space shuttle Endeavour and its six-member STS-134 crew head toward Earth orbit and rendezvous…
Backdropped against a blanket of heavy cloud cover, the Russian-built FGB, also called Zarya, nears the Space Shuttle Endeavour and…
On June 10, 2011, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft angled its orbit 65° to the west, allowing the LRO Camera…
On June 10, 2011, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter angled its orbit 65° to the west, allowing the spacecraft's cameras to…
The Space Shuttle Endeavour receives a high-flying salute from its sister Shuttle Columbia, atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, shortly after…
