Image of the DayAnchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and astronaut Steve Bowen (out of frame) worked to clean...STS-126 astronaut Steve Bowen and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (out of frame) worked to clean and lubricate part of the station's starboard...Space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2 (foreground) are featured in this view while the shuttle as...The International Space Station's Expedition 18 crew provided a close-up view of Endeavour's tail section. The image provides partial views...Not long after the opening of the payload bay doors on space shuttle Endeavour, the crew was able to get...Blazing light surrounds Launch Pad 39A and glows in the nearby water as space shuttle Endeavour leaps into the sky...Blazing light surrounds space shuttle Endeavour, eclipsing the light from the nearby full moon, as it roars into space from...Nearly 40 years after their historic flight, the crew of Apollo 8 reunited as part of a special public program...Hermann Potocnik (1892-1929), better known as Herman Noordung, created the first detailed technical drawings of a space station. This 1929...Palmetto trees frame space shuttle Endeavour as it rolls toward Launch Pad 39A after earlier moving off Launch Pad 39B...The deck of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was so dusty that it almost blended into the dusty background in...What's happening to the galaxies of cluster Abell 2667? On the upper left, a galaxy appears to be breaking up...Just before Rhea slipped behind Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft captured the moon in its disappearing act. Along with the partly...What's the world's most complex space robot doing up there? In June 2008, Dextre was moved atop the Destiny Laboratory...Just a few days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide...Officially known as 1E 0657-56, the Bullet Cluster was formed after the violent collision of two large clusters of galaxies....Most ISS images are nadir, in which the center point of the image is directly beneath the lens of the...As the name implies, this reflection nebula associated with the star Rigel looks suspiciously like a fairytale crone. Formally known...Langley researcher Elton W. Miller stands poised in the Propeller Research Tunnel, as if pondering the future of aviation in...Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six glided onto Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center after spending nine...Astronaut Alan Shepard is hurled into space atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket. Freedom 7 was the first American manned suborbital space...With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings...The Rub' al Khali is one of the largest sand deserts in the world, encompassing most of the southern third...This moon is doomed. Mars, named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons-Phobos and Deimos-whose names are...This striking image of a mound within the area of a trough cutting into Mars' north polar layered deposits was...The STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft observed this visually stunning prominence eruption on Sept. 29, 2008, in the 304 angstrom wavelength of...Forty years ago today, on Oct. 14, 1968, Apollo 7 transmitted the first live broadcast from a manned U.S. spacecraft....About 58 minutes before MESSENGER's closest approach to Mercury on Oct. 6, 2008, its Narrow Angle Camera captured this close-up...The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard...The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft arrives at the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, for...Although originally designed to measure atmospheric water vapor and temperature profiles for weather forecasting, data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder...The Soyuz launch pad is seen prior to the rollout of the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in...Ring shadows line the face of distant Saturn, providing a backdrop for the brilliant, white sphere of Enceladus. This icy...About 4,000 light years from Earth lies RCW 108, a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way...Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat's Eye Nebula lies 3,000 light-years from Earth. The Cat's Eye (NGC 6543) represents...After completing its mission to re-supply the International Space Station, the European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)...A welder at NASA's Glenn Research Center (GRC) grinds welds on an Ares I-X rocket segment being readied for shipment...Expedition 14 commander Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (left) and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer representing Russia's Federal Space Agency, conduct pre-spacewalk...Astronaut Russell Schweickart, lunar module pilot, stands on the module's deck during his spacewalk on the fourth day of the...Dr. Wernher von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center's first director, points out details on a Saturn rocket to President Dwight...
