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Glint in the Cat’s Eye
Glint in the Cat’s Eye

This image of the Cat's Eye Nebula was made by combining data from two of NASA's Great Observatories-Chandra and the…

Preparing for Flight
Preparing for Flight

Technicians carefully position an Orion flight test crew module to be airlifted from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to the…

Spirit’s View From ‘Troy’
Spirit’s View From ‘Troy’

Today, Aug. 18, 2009, marks the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's 2,000th sol, or Martian day, on the Red Planet. This…

Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE)
Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE)

A successful NASA flight test has shown that a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to…

Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment Launches
Inflatable Re-entry Vehicle Experiment Launches

A successful NASA flight test on Monday, Aug. 17, demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable…

Lunar Lander Model
Lunar Lander Model

This 1963 model depicts an early Apollo lunar lander concept, called a "bug." Engineers designed several possible vehicle shapes for…

Ares I-X Complete
Ares I-X Complete

Standing tall at its fully assembled height of 327 feet, the Ares I-X is one of the largest rockets ever…

The Formation of Stars
The Formation of Stars

Cepheus B, a molecular cloud located in our Milky Galaxy about 2,400 light years from the Earth, provides an excellent…

Unraveling Saturn’s Rings
Unraveling Saturn’s Rings

In this simulated image of Saturn's rings, color is used to present information about ring particle sizes in different regions…

Coiled Creature
Coiled Creature

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark - a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object…