Astronaut John H. Glenn, Flight Surgeon Dr. William Douglas and equipment specialist Joe Schmitt leave crew quarters prior to the…
On December 16, 1992, 8 days after its encounter with Earth, the Galileo spacecraft looked back from a distance of…
Forty-one years ago today on Dec. 4, 1965, NASA launched Gemini VII. With this mission, NASA successfully completed its first…
As the first of the Surveyor missions to make a successful soft landing on the moon, Surveyor 1, proved the…
Pictured is a composite image combining many short exposures. Visible in the image are the tail of the airplane reflecting…
Members of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs, also known as the "Mercury 13"), these seven women who once aspired…
Waves of clouds along the east flanks of the Andes Mountains cast off an orange glow by the low angle…
Bright scars on a darker surface testify to a long history of impacts on Jupiter's moon Callisto in this image…
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera would make a great backyard telescope for viewing Mars, and we can…
Diversity of Life possible on other planets
