Ground crewmen shove the more than two-ton SOFIA primary mirror assembly in its transport crate into a C-17's cavernous cargo…
A NASA technician directs loading of the crated SOFIA primary mirror assembly into a C-17 for shipment to NASA Ames…
NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory lifts off the runway at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., on its first flight…
Members of the SOFIA crew disembark from the aircraft at its new home inside of Hangar 703 at the Dryden…
A ground crewman signals the flight crew of NASA's SOFIA flying observatory to stop as other crewmen head to their…
This view of space shuttle Discovery's tail section was taken on flight day 3 by the Expedition 17 crew aboard…
During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. The…
Above Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, space shuttle Discovery emerges from behind a growing cloud of smoke…
North is up (the 12 o'clock position) in this seam-corrected 360 degree polar projection using images from sols, or Martian…
Space shuttle Discovery leaps from the billows of smoke below into a clear blue sky on its STS-124 mission to…
