Image of the DayThe full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is revealed in this new, detailed view from NASA's Hubble...When the sun reflects off the surface of the ocean at the same angle that a satellite sensor is viewing...Astronauts Jim Reilly and John Olivas (visible among Reilly's helmet reflections), both STS-117 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first...Astronaut Michael E. Lopez-Alegria (top), Expedition 14 commander and NASA space station science officer, and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, flight engineer...Concluding mission STS-115, Atlantis and her crew return to Kennedy Space Center and approach a landing before sunrise on Runway...This is one of a series of images photographed with a digital still camera featuring the different areas of the...Compared to Old World settlements like Rome and Alexandria, Egypt, Cape Cod is fairly young. Cape Cod's geology is fairly...Expedition 16 commander Peggy A. Whitson participated in the 100th spacewalk for the construction and maintenance of the International Space...Though ghostly in appearance like a hologram, aerogel is very solid and feels like hard styrofoam to the touch. Aerogel...Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter lifts off from Cape Canaveral on May 24, 1962, in his Aurora 7 capsule. The fourth...An aluminum bulkhead of the center truss segment test article for the international space station completes machining at Boeing facilities...This 1992 photograph shows a world record breaking paper airplane inside a hangar at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia.A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. Lava flows extend for hundreds of...This artist's conception shows the relative size of a hypothetical brown dwarf-planetary system compared to our own solar system. A...This image of the International Space Station was taken as Space Shuttle Discovery approaches the station during rendezvous and docking...NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most detailed visible-light image ever taken of a narrow, dusty ring around the nearby star Fomalhaut...NASA's Deep Impact mission kicked off Independence Day with some celestial fireworks, about 83 million miles from Earth. The mission's...In the early 1930's, Dr. Robert H. Goddard towed his rocket to the launching tower behind a Model A Ford...The first image of Earth from the red planet was captured earlier this month, May 2003, by the camera onboard...The image composite compares an infrared image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to a visible-light picture of the same...The Shuttle Discovery and the STS-96 crew made history in May 1999 when they became the first crew and orbiter...This 1967 photograph shows S-1C-8 (the first stage) of a Saturn V rocket being lowered to a horizontal position at...This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of...This artist's concept shows a view across a mysterious disk of young, blue stars encircling a supermassive black hole at...This artist's conception symbolically represents complex organic molecules, known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, seen in the early universe. These large...Warm ocean waters fuel hurricanes, and there was plenty of warm water for Katrina to build up strength once she...The Magellan probe that orbited Venus from 1990 to 1994 was able to peer through the thick Venusian clouds and...Launched in the mid-1960s, the Ranger fleet of spacecraft provided live television transmissions of the moon from lunar orbit for...Nearly two weeks after landing in Gusev Crater, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has rolled off of its lander and...This close-up view of the X-38 crew return vehicle under the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership prior to launch of...The four principal HL-10 pilots are seen here with the lifting body aircraft. From left to right, they are Air...Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the vacuum of space. This picture,...In this 3-D perspective view looking north over Death Valley, California, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER),...This false color image of Saturn's moon Mimas reveals variation in the composition and texture across its surface. During its...NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured a glowing stellar nursery within a dark globule that reveals the birth of new protostars,...This artist's concept shows a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our...Russian technicians work on the Zvezda Service Module shortly after it completed a pressurization test on Sept. 12 1997. The...This 1958 scale model shows the Mercury capsule shape B design, indicating the position of the astronaut.In 1966, technicians prepared to work on a solar mirror located in the Solar Collector Laboratory at the Lewis Research...NASA was created on Oct. 1, 1958, to perform civilian research related to space flight and aeronautics. President Dwight D....
