Apollo 16 mission commander John Young leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the U.S. flag at the Descartes…
Rising above the pad's fixed service tower, a Delta IV rocket soars into the sky with the GOES-O satellite aboard.…
A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev volcano (Russia's Kuril Islands,…
The Voyager 2 spacecraft took this color photo of Neptune's moon Triton on Aug. 24 1989, at a range of…
This photo of the Sondrestrom glacier in Greenland was taken from a window on NASA's Gulfstream C-20A.
This image showing a portion of the San Andreas Fault along the San Francisco Peninsula was taken by the UAVSAR…
This photo of the Sondrestrom Glacier in Greenland was taken from a window on NASA's Gulfstream III environmental research aircraft…
This photo mosaic shows a view of the sun from Baja California during an eclipse on July 11, 1991, with…
The shadow of Saturn's moon Mimas dips onto the planet's rings and straddles the Cassini Division in this natural color…
A successful test of the Orion crew module's energy absorbing strut concept, was performed June 9, 2009, at the Landing…