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Dr. Goddard Transports His Rocket
Dr. Goddard Transports His Rocket

In the early 1930's, Dr. Robert H. Goddard towed his rocket to the launching tower behind a Model A Ford…

The Earth and Moon from Mars
The Earth and Moon from Mars

The first image of Earth from the red planet was captured earlier this month, May 2003, by the camera onboard…

Mountains of Creation
Mountains of Creation

The image composite compares an infrared image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to a visible-light picture of the same…

Black Hole Bully
Black Hole Bully

This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of…

Saturn V, Stage I
Saturn V, Stage I

This 1967 photograph shows S-1C-8 (the first stage) of a Saturn V rocket being lowered to a horizontal position at…

Shuttle Meets Station
Shuttle Meets Station

The Shuttle Discovery and the STS-96 crew made history in May 1999 when they became the first crew and orbiter…

Andromeda’s Active Core
Andromeda’s Active Core

This artist's concept shows a view across a mysterious disk of young, blue stars encircling a supermassive black hole at…

Ingredients for Life
Ingredients for Life

This artist's conception symbolically represents complex organic molecules, known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, seen in the early universe. These large…

Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina

Warm ocean waters fuel hurricanes, and there was plenty of warm water for Katrina to build up strength once she…

The North Pole of Venus
The North Pole of Venus

The Magellan probe that orbited Venus from 1990 to 1994 was able to peer through the thick Venusian clouds and…