Setup for Project Mercury capsule escape tower engine tests in the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at NASA Glenn Research Center…
John Glenn being helped into the MASTIF or gimbal rig (1960).
Nebulae are enormous clouds of dust and gas occupying the space between the stars. Some have pretty names to match…
Latest image of the far side of the Sun based on high resolution STEREO data, taken on February 2, 2011…
Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency's robotic "handyman", is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 26 crew member aboard…
Students from Ferebee-Hope Elementary School in Washington, D.C., take turns trying on a glove from a space suit on Tuesday,…
On Feb. 1, 2011, the Hinode satellite captured this breathtaking image of a coronal hole, seen in the top center…
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden (left) and Stennis Space Center Director Patrick Scheuermann view a test firing of the first Aerojet…
This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.…
The sun begins to rise in the east overlooking Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with…
