Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies the young star…
Framed by the Earth's horizon and airglow, the full moon floats in the blackness of space in this photo from…
Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott salutes the American flag at the the Hadley-Apennine lunar landing site. The Lunar Module "Falcon"…
Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., Apollo 16 Lunar Module pilot, is photographed collecting lunar samples at Station No. 1 during…
Miranda is a bizarre world, which surely had a tempestuous past. The innermost of the larger Uranian moons, Miranda is…
Pictured is astronaut Walter M. Schirra, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April…
President John F. Kennedy, astronaut John Glenn and General Leighton I. Davis ride together during a parade in Cocoa Beach,…
In this 1948 photograph, test pilot Lawrence Clousing climbs into his Lockheed P-80 aircraft for a test flight at the…
This 1962 photo shows Robert St. John in a pilot restraint and closed loop breathing system at NASA's Ames Research…
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is still four months and millions of miles from Saturn, but it's already close enough to send…
