Image of the DayAstronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., Gemini 5 pilot, sits in the Gemini Static Article 5 spacecraft and prepares to be...Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David R. Scott sit with their spacecraft hatches open while awaiting the arrival of the recovery...As smoke billows across Launch Pad 39A, Space Shuttle Endeavour climbs into the sky on mission STS-118, the 22nd shuttle...As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft acquired this image showing a...This artist's impression shows how the Arches star cluster appears from deep inside the hub of our Milky Way Galaxy....The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour lit up the sky at sunset as it lifted off on time at 6:36...The STS-118 crew recently took a break from traing to pose for their official portrait. Pictured from the left are...Ripples on the wind create intricate wave patterns in a thick plume of dust over Egypt (right) and Libya (left),...Clouds and sunlight over the Indian Ocean, as seen from Discovery during the STS-96 mission in 1999.From a ridgeline vantage point overlooking slopes, valleys and plains, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has returned its latest color...Shown in this 1972 image is Lexington, Massachusetts, high school student Judith Miles, who discusses her proposed Skylab experiment with...Although the Huygens probe has now pierced the murky skies of Titan and landed on its surface, much of the...Sulfur-rich rocks in the "Columbia Hills" on Mars stand out in bright blue in this false-color image from the Spirit...President Gerald R. Ford watches Apollo Soyuz Test Project crewmen Thomas P. Stafford, Donald K. Slayton and Valeriy N. Kubasov...Space Shuttle Discovery landed safely at 5:32 p.m. EST on Dec. 22, at Kennedy Space Center to bring STS-116's successful...NASA Astronaut Ed White made history on June 3, 1965, when he floated out of the hatch of his Gemini...This aerial view of the Shuttle Enterprise from 1978 shows the shuttle orbiter being hoisted into Marshall's Dynamic Test Stand...The blackness of space and Earth's horizon provide the backdrop for this image of the docked Soyuz 13 (TMA-9) (foreground)...Anchored to the International Space Station's Canadarm2 foot restraint, astronauts Robert L. Curbeam Jr. (top) and Christer Fuglesang (center) work...Astronaut Robert Curbeam works on the port overhead solar array wing on the International Space Station's P6 truss during the...Framed by the Earth's horizon and airglow, the full moon floats in the blackness of space in this photo from...Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies the young star...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...The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is still four months and millions of miles from Saturn, but it's already close enough to send...This 1962 photo shows Robert St. John in a pilot restraint and closed loop breathing system at NASA's Ames Research...Space Shuttle Atlantis takes flight on the STS-27 mission in December 2, 1988. The Shuttle takes about 8.5 minutes to...The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the "butterfly wing"- shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000...In this 1959 image, a technician checks the Mercury full-scale capsule model prior to testing at NASA Langley Research Center,...Flooding the night sky with its blazing light, Space Shuttle Discovery leaps toward the sky from Launch Pad 39B on...Astronaut Gus Grissom climbs into "Liberty Bell 7" spacecraft before launch on the morning of July 21, 1961. Astronaut John...Light emitted by a planet far beyond our Solar System has been identified for the first time. The planet, illustrated...The Earth's horizon and the Shuttle Discovery are reflected in a spacewalking astronaut's visor during the STS-103 mission in December...Astronaut Carlos I. Noriega, mission specialist, waves toward his space walk partner, astronaut Joseph R. Tanner, as Tanner snaps a...When the Hubble Space Telescope rocketed into orbit aboard the Shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990, the world of astronomy...Space Shuttle Discovery is bathed in light on Launch Pad 39B. Seen above the external tank is the vent hood...
