Two Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration aircraft were transferred from the U.S. Air Force to NASA's Dryden…
Astronaut Shannon W. Lucid made history in 1996 on the Russian Mir Space Station, her home for six months, as…
Space shuttle Discovery blasts away from Launch Pad 39A atop towers of flame as it races toward space on its…
STS-124 Mission Specialist Mike Fossum participates in the mission's first spacewalk. Visible in the reflections of his helmet visor are…
Astronaut Ron Garan, participates in the mission's second scheduled session of extravehicular activity along with Mike Fossum, as construction and…
With the blackness of space and the Earth's horizon as a backdrop, astronaut Ron Garan completes the third spacewalk of…
A view of the space shuttle Discovery soon after the shuttle and the International Space Station began their post-undocking relative…
Eighty years ago this week on June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic…
Doug Huie, research technician at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, carefully sets the NanoSail-D satellite on a specially constructed…
Astronauts Kathryn D. Sullivan, left, and Sally K. Ride display a "bag of worms" during the STS-41G mission in 1984.…
