Image of the DayNASA’s first completed Orion crew module sits atop its service module at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Facility at...This new Hubble image shows a beautiful spiral galaxy known as PGC 54493, in the constellation of Serpens and an...Engineers inspect a new piece of technology developed for the James Webb Space Telescope, a micro shutter array, in a...A NASA aircraft plays follow-the-leader during early morning flight tests of jet biofuels.NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted this photo from the International Space Station on Tuesday morning, Sept. 2, 2014.Surrounded by bright stars a small young stellar object in the constellation of Perseus is in the early stages of...A "NIRSpec-tacular" photo of an instrument that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope when it launches in 2018.NASA has completed a complex series of tests on one of the largest composite cryogenic fuel tanks ever manufactured, bringing...On Aug. 24, 2014, the sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 8:16 a.m. EDT. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory...NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989.Inside the Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians dressed in clean-room suits...The destructive results of a mighty supernova explosion reveal themselves in a delicate blend of infrared and X-ray light, as...Located in the Brabazon Range of southeastern Alaska, Yakutat Glacier is one of the fastest retreating glaciers in the world....On Aug. 19, National Aviation Day, a lot of people are reflecting on how far aviation has come in the...The pale rocks in the foreground of this Aug. 14, 2014, image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover include the "Bonanza...Engineers inside the world's largest clean room at Goddard are working on "Pathfinder" for the James Webb Space Telescope.One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station photographed this nighttime image showing city lights in...On January 21, 2014, astronomers witnessed a supernova soon after it exploded in the Messier 82, or M82, galaxy.The center section of the "pathfinder" (test) backplane of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope arrived at the Goddard Space Flight...NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Expedition 40 flight engineer, installs Capillary Channel Flow (CCF) experiment hardware in the Microgravity Science Glovebox...A perigee full moon or "supermoon" is seen, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, in Washington. A supermoon occurs when the moon’s...Divers retrieve the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator off the coast of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range...In early August 2014, not one but two hurricanes were headed for the Hawaiian Islands. Storms arriving from the east...Close up detail focusing on a smooth region on the ‘base’ of the ‘body’ section of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image...This image was captured by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shortly after it landed on the Red Planet on the evening...A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft floats inside the well deck of the U.S.S. Anchorage on August 2, 2014,...One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the International Space Station recorded this early evening photo of the entire...Ranger 7 took this image, the first picture of the moon by a U.S. spacecraft, on July 31, 1964 at...NASA technologists have hurdled a number of significant challenges in their quest to improve a revolutionary observing technology originally created...On July 26, 2014, from 10:57 a.m. to 11:42 a.m. EDT, the moon crossed between NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)...Tethys, like many moons in the solar system, keeps one face pointed towards the planet around which it orbits. Tethys'...For the first time, engineers stacked and unfurled a full-sized test unit of the Sunshield and it worked perfectly.The Apollo 11 astronauts, left to right, Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot...In this July 1999 photograph, five astronauts pose for a traditional inflight crew portrait with a large poster depicting the...President Barack Obama meets with Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins, seated left, Buzz Aldrin, Carol Armstrong, widow of Apollo 11...NASA's Orion spacecraft crew module has been stacked on the service module inside the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy...At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA officials and Apollo astronauts tour the refurbished Operations and Checkout Building, newly...Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., wearing a Mercury pressure suit, is photographed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities...From the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, flying some 225 nautical miles above the Caribbean Sea in the early morning hours...On July 16, 1969, the huge, 363-feet tall Saturn V rocket launches on the Apollo 11 mission from Pad A,...
