
Cotton cell samples are pictured growing on a petri dish inside the Advanced Plant Habitat.

The LAMP mission hopes to understand an often overlooked kind of aurora, called a pulsating aurora, and to test a…

The LAMP mission, short for Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, launched at 2:27 a.m. AKST (6:27 a.m. EST) Saturday, Mar.…

In this undated image from the 1960s, Nancy Grace Roman sits in her office in NASA Headquarters. Roman was the…

ESA astronaut Matthias Barron poses for a portrait aboard the International Space Station.

Astronaut Kayla Barron sets up hardware for the Intelligent Glass Optics study in the International Space Station's Microgravity Science Glovebox.

Astronaut Raja Chari wears virtual reality goggles to practice spacewalk rescue scenarios.

Astronaut Tom Marshburn wraps up skin tissue research operations inside the U.S. Destiny laboratory module's Microgravity Science Glovebox.

Astronaut Tom Marshburn stows blood samples he collected earlier in an International Space Station science freezer.

Joe Walker was the first to fly the variable-geometry wing X-5 to a full 60-degree wing-sweep angle, adjusted in flight.