Image of the DayThe 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,...This colorized image of Jupiter's moon Europa is a product of clear-filter grayscale data from one orbit of NASA's Galileo...This image of the surface of Mars covers a location that has been captured several times by the HiRISE camera...The full moon rises in the sky to the right of the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus...The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket launches from Pad-0A with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, Sunday, July 13, 2014, at NASA's...Nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1433, at about 32 million light-years from Earth, is a type of very active galaxy known...The Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is rolled out of the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF)...NASA's Smart SPHERES -- a prototype free-flying space robot equipped with a smartphone -- will test 3-D mapping and navigation...The Cassini spacecraft captures three magnificent sights at once: Saturn's north polar vortex and hexagon along with its expansive rings.Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency posted this photograph of windswept valleys in Northern Africa,...Spiral galaxy NGC 4258 puts on galactic light show with a giant black hole, shock waves and vast reservoirs of...This image of Tropical Storm Arthur was taken by the GOES West satellite at the far eastern periphery of its...July 2, 2014 -- A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launches with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite onboard...The launch gantry is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2...The upper levels of the launch gantry, surrounding the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2...The launch gantry surrounding the Delta II rocket with the second Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite onboard is seen in this...On Thursday, June 26, the Expedition 40 crew aboard the International Space Station got a chance to catch up on...A test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends under its three main parachutes above the U.S. Army Proving Ground in...NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the camera at the end of its arm in April and May 2014 to take...On June 23, 2014, Expedition 40 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman captured this image which connects Earth to the International Space...The dwarf galaxy NGC 5474 contains several billion stars, compared to the Milky Way with its hundreds of billions of...The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image on June 5, 2014 as a...This storm cell photo was taken from NASA's high-altitude ER-2 aircraft on May 23, 2014, during a study aimed at...In honor of the fifth anniversary of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the public selected this image of Tycho Central...NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Steve Swanson and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst take a break to watch ten minutes of live...Taking center stage in this Hubble image is a galaxy known as NGC 3081, set against an assortment of glittering...As fans around the world tune in to World Cup 2014, a few fans out of this world will be...This view in the International Space Station, photographed by an Expedition 40 crew member, shows how it looks inside the...The Orion crew module for Exploration Flight Test-1 is shown in the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) Cell, positioned...Saturn's moon Prometheus is caught in the act of creating gores and streamers in the F ring.This new Hubble image shows NGC 1566, a beautiful galaxy located 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado.On Mars, we can observe four classes of sandy landforms formed by the wind, or aeolian bedforms: ripples, transverse aeolian...Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe – among the most colorful...
