Astronaut John Phillips (foreground), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata and astronaut Richard Arnold, all STS-119 mission specialists,…
This first of its kind three-dimensional picture of Mars' north pole, taken in 1999, enables scientists to estimate the volume…
Soaring like a bird above the Sierra Nevada snowscape, a NASA ER-2 high-altitude Earth science aircraft banks during flight. NASA's…
The comet Lulin (center-right) is seen through the trees from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009. Lulin,…
Technicians are installing ion engine #1 in the High Vacuum Tank in the Electric Propulsion Research Building in this image…
Techs Check Out Kepler
John L. "Jack" Swigert was one of three astronauts aboard the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, which launched on April 11,…
In 1609, Galileo improved the newly invented telescope, turned it toward the heavens, and revolutionized our view of the universe.…
The honeycombed, screened center of this open-circuit air intake for Langley's first wind tunnel insured a steady, nonturbulent flow of…
The launch of the first artificial satellite by the then Soviet Union in 1957 marked the beginning of the utilization…
