Image of the DayBackdropped by the blackness of space and the thin line of Earth's atmosphere, space shuttle Atlantis' payload bay, Canadian-built remote...The space shuttle Atlantis' remote manipulator system arm lifts the Hubble Space Telescope from the cargo bay and is moments...The STS-125 crew took a final look at the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009, prior to the telescopes's...Solar panels on the Hubble Space Telescope make for unique window shades in this scene photographed from the flight deck...Astronaut John Grunsfeld, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Atlantis' remote manipulator system, participated in the mission's...Astronauts Michael Good (bottom) and Mike Massimino participate in the STS-125 mission's fourth spacewalk on May 17, 2009, as work...With a mostly dark home planet behind him, astronaut Michael Good rides Atlantis' remote manipulator system arm to the exact...Tethered to the end of the remote manipulator system arm, which was controlled from inside Atlantis' crew cabin, STS-125 astronaut...STS-125 mission specialist John Grunsfeld is about to attach a tether during a May 16, 2009, spacewalk to perform work...Astronaut Michael Good peers through a window toward Atlantis' crew cabin interior, where his shirt-sleeved support team members busy themselves...STS-125 astronaut Andrew Feustel selects his next tool to use while participating in the first of five scheduled spacewalks to...Astronaut John Grunsfeld performs work on the Hubble Space Telescope as the first of five STS-125 spacewalks kicks off a...In this tightly cropped image, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during solar transit, Tuesday, May 12,...The Hubble Space Telescope stands tall in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Atlantis following its capture on Wednesday,...STS-125 mission specialist Michael Good is busy on Atlantis' middeck during his second day in space. The mission promises to...The launch of space shuttle Atlantis from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is viewed from...NASA Shuttle Launch Director Michael Leinbach shows his lucky silver bullet while in firing room #4 of the NASA Kennedy...The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope....Under a dry, hot, cloud-washed Florida sky, space shuttle Atlantis roars off Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center...This artist's conception shows a hypothetical young planet around a cool star. A soupy mix of potentially life-forming chemicals can...A worker completes installation of a 25-foot-tall scale model of the Ares V rocket outside the Visitor Center at NASA's...On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard piloted his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule in a 15-minute suborbital flight, becoming...Saturn's rings cast a dramatic shadow separating the blues and greens of the planet's northern hemisphere from the creamy pastels...NASA's STS-119 space shuttle crew (from left: Joseph Acaba, Tony Antonelli, Lee Archambault, John Phillips, Richard Arnold and Steve Swanson)...The Wilkins Ice Shelf, on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, experienced multiple disintegration events in 2008. By the...NASA Astronaut Richard Arnold, a native of Maryland, hands a baseball jersey that flew on board the space shuttle during...NASA pilots Jack Nickel (in the jet with tail number 62) and Charles Justiz fly over for a bird's eye...Jupiter's moon Europa has a crust made up of blocks, which are thought to have broken apart and 'rafted' into...A mock-up of the Orion crew exploration vehicle floats in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. NASA engineers are...On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, from Nepal, became the first humans to successfully...The All-American Canal, the largest irrigation canal in the world and a key landmark along the U.S.-Mexico border, is the...This Landsat 7 image of Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West Africa, shows the complex patterns of the country's shallow...Aracar volcano is one of many volcanoes in the Andes Range that is located just east of the Argentina-Chile border....The Apollo 16 crew captured this Earthrise with a handheld Hasselblad camera during the second revolution of the moon. Identifiable...The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives...NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its navigation camera to take the images that have been combined into this 180-degree...The parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) passed flight-qualification after testing in March and April 2009 inside the world's...President Richard M. Nixon and the Apollo 13 crew salute the U.S. flag during the post-mission ceremonies at Hickam Air...Technicians were performing pre-launch testing of the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA9) on Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral when this photo...Less than a year after its birth, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency announced its first astronaut class, the Mercury...
