STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly, center, along with his crew speaks to the media following their arrival to Kennedy Space Center,…
In Space Systems International's Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, technicians have rotated NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D spacecraft…
Global color mosaic of Triton, taken in 1989 by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the Neptune system. Color was…
Voyager 1 image of Io showing active plume of Loki on limb. Heart-shaped feature southeast of Loki consists of fallout…
This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of…
A T-38 jet is silhouetted against the sun in flight. NASA astronauts train in the T-38s to prepare for flying…
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. approaches his Freedom 7 capsule, ready to climb in for his historic launch on May…
President John F. Kennedy presents astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal Award in a Rose Garden…
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., peers into his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule before launch on the morning of May 5,…
Fellow Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom (in suit) wishes Shepard good luck as he gets set to climb into his Mercury…
