This false-color mosaic shows deep-level clouds silhouetted against Saturn's glowing interior. This mosaic shows the entire planet, including features like…
This "family portrait," a composite of the Jovian system, includes the edge of Jupiter with its Great Red Spot, and…
NASA's second round of human space flights got off the ground 40 years ago with the launch of Gemini III…
Lunar module pilot James Irwin works at the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the first Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity…
On July 20, 1969, the America's Apollo 11 landed on the moon, making history as the first humans set foot…
On Aug. 23, 1966, the world received its first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of…
This gold aluminum cover was designed to protect the Voyager 1 and 2 "Sounds of Earth" gold-plated records from micrometeorite…
In this photograph from 1962, President John F. Kennedy attends a briefing given by Major Rocco Petrone during a tour…
A new chapter in space flight began in July 1950 with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral,…
The S-II stage of the Saturn V rocket is hoisted onto the A-2 test stand in 1967 at the Mississippi…
